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204 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

the old ruins divulged their secret ? Were<br />

they asking how she had come to <strong>her</strong> end,<br />

and speculating and wondering upon what<br />

could have taken <strong>her</strong> t<strong>her</strong>e to meet it ?<br />

All this buzz and talk about his dead wife,<br />

what would it have been had they only<br />

known the truth ? What was it that they<br />

should say she was dead, when they might<br />

have had so much more to speak <strong>of</strong>? He<br />

had saved <strong>her</strong> that— yes, he had saved <strong>her</strong>,<br />

protected <strong>her</strong> even from <strong>her</strong> own weakness.<br />

Let <strong>her</strong> sleep in peace ; t<strong>her</strong>e were none to<br />

cast stones upon <strong>her</strong> grave now.<br />

" Deb,"<br />

he said, '' what was that you and some lad<br />

were talking about this morning—was that<br />

your mistress whom they found in the old<br />

Fort?"<br />

" Lor a mercy, sir ! and how came yew<br />

to hear o' that, an' I thort we did n't speak<br />

above a whisper ?"<br />

"Just tell me, Deb, was it your mis-<br />

tress?'

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