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outside. Was that
—
IN THE FORT. 17
that how he had
chosen to revenge himself for his imagined
wrongs ? She remembered, dimly, now,
having heard him speak of some acquaint-
ance with the Fort—of its probable fall
before long, owing to the entrance of the sea
into some subterranean chamber or passage
beneath it. Once, on a rare occasion, when
he had given himself a few hours' holiday,
he had come with Mr. Rushington to pho-
tograph the exterior of the building ; an9
they spoke of some discoveries they had
made in the interior, and the likelihood,
before long, of the waves levelling the
tower to the sands. This—this was what
he had brousrht her there for I Either the
waves should come and destroy her before
they retired back to their vast bed, or the
stones of the old place would fall upon and
crush her out of shape, if at last the waters
were to do what had been so long expected
of them ? She roused once more with the
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