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232 OUT OF HER SriIERE.<br />

in the evidence <strong>of</strong> his own eye-sight as re-<br />

garded Mrs. Thornton's identity shaken.<br />

Was Clare right after all, or had she in-<br />

fluenced <strong>her</strong> master to believe as she wished<br />

him ? And how was it that he bore the<br />

knowledge with such wonderful calmness ?<br />

They had not been happy toget<strong>her</strong> he be-<br />

lieved, but that would hardly account for<br />

the utter insensibility Mr. Thornton mani-<br />

fested. Then it flashed across him that if<br />

indeed Clare was right, and the dead woman<br />

he had seen yesterday was <strong>her</strong> former mis-<br />

tress, she had come foully by <strong>her</strong> end<br />

—<br />

stricken down, so the medical witnesses<br />

averred, by a blow which had caused <strong>her</strong><br />

death. A blow that might have been given<br />

in sudden passion—on the impulse <strong>of</strong> an<br />

angry moment—in some mad fit <strong>of</strong> jealousy !<br />

Had he discovered the secret t<strong>her</strong>e ? Found<br />

the clue to all this mystery. Had Mrs. Thorn-<br />

ton died by <strong>her</strong> husband's hand ? Was it<br />

possible that the jealousy which he had

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