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176 OUT OF IIER SPHERE.<br />

last." And then Temple went into the<br />

whole story. " He wanted <strong>her</strong> to know<br />

this—may I leave it to you to tell <strong>her</strong>?<br />

She has not so much to forgive, after all,<br />

as she imagined."<br />

*' She has quite enough to forgive/' said<br />

Beatey, indignantly. "To be second to a<br />

waiting-maid ! And<br />

<strong>her</strong> the truth from the first ?"<br />

why did n't he tell<br />

" Perhaps because he was afraid that she<br />

would take the same view <strong>of</strong> it that you<br />

have done. Now, to-morrow I mean to see<br />

Charlotte Clare, and, if possible, judge for<br />

myself whet<strong>her</strong> Mr. Thornton is quite<br />

incapable <strong>of</strong> throwing any light on the<br />

matter."<br />

" You do n't mean to say," gasped Beatey,<br />

" that—that— you think he had anything<br />

to do with Mrs. Thornton's murder ?"<br />

"I do n't believe Mrs. Thornton is<br />

murdered at all. Some poor creature, cer-<br />

tainly, has come to <strong>her</strong> end in that Fort,

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