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242 OUT OF II ER SPHERE.
He went his way, and Clare bent over
her patient.
" He has nigh done for him," she thought,
" and no great harm either. What a fool
he was to hear all that he has heard, alone.
It might have made all the difference to
Mr. Audley Dale, if his clever friend had
had the sense to bring some one with him ;
but I reckon he did n't expect to hear
quite as much as he did. This story can't
be told to-morrow ; he 11 never be able to
go through with it again," she thought,
looking keenly at her patient, on whose
forehead the drops were fast rising, and
over whose face, a change, almost like that
of death, was spreading. She considered
—
"Shall I send for Mr. Harben ?" Clare
hated slighting her work, and her master
just now was her work, and yet if he were
to die, or relapse into unconsciousness be-
fore the morrow, what a difference it would
make to all those well-laid schemes of hers.