Out of her sphere - University Library

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Harold Thornton looked at him dreamily.
What did this man mean that he was
talking thus of the possibility of his wife's
being yet alive ? What strange delusion
possessed him? And yet he looked sane
and calm enough. As if a weak, frail
woman could have struggled back to life
from that awful stronghold where he had
left her, caged and prisoned, waiting for
her doom? As if the women who had
served her for years would not have known
whether or no the form the waters had at
last yielded up was that of their mistress or
no ? Did this other man love her so well
that he would not accept her death as pos-
sible ? Was that why this story had been
framed and repeated to him, so that he
might give some clue to guide him to
her ? Perhaps he had looked upon the
decaying lineaments that had been rescued