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CLARE GRO WS NER VO US. 225<br />

any cause but accident. They were not<br />

too happy toget<strong>her</strong> ; but still, the very<br />

name <strong>of</strong> murder would startle stronger<br />

nerves than Mr. Thornton's were at the<br />

best <strong>of</strong> times."<br />

Temple Masters came in, then, by Mr.<br />

Thornton's permission, simply, as Mr.<br />

Harben said, to ask him some particulars<br />

respecting the unhappy accident by which<br />

Mrs. Thornton had come to <strong>her</strong> end. " You<br />

mast learn all you can from him in that<br />

manner/' said the doctor ; " and I do n't<br />

believe, myself, that any way he can tell<br />

you very much."<br />

Mr. Thornton wondered what this visit<br />

meant. If they supposed his wife had died<br />

by an accident, why should they want to<br />

learn more about it ? And what had this<br />

man from London—a barrister, he believed<br />

—to do with the matter ? Had he not seen<br />

him with Audley Dale ? Had he got him<br />

to come ? Was he seeking to know if<br />

VOL. III. 15

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