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20 OUT OF IIER SPUEItE.
them. They had gone on their way, and
there were no other human beings near.
There stood the Fort, making, in its
ruined grimness, the desolate sands look yet
more desolate, and, save the shrimper, who
not an hour ago had seen Henrietta Thornton
enter its walls, and who was now wading,
some distance off, in the fast incoming
waves, no one was in sight. No one to
guess that a tragedy was going on within
the decaying Fort as awful as it had ever
witnessed in the days of its fiercest and
cruellest streng-th.
But the poor, desperate creature was
held tightly and firmly. Clasped closer
and closer, for all her struggles, to his
bosom—nay, sometimes kissed again, and
her face wet with tears, as he almost moaned,
"What else have you left for me to do?
But why did you drive me to it ?" and the
waves were coming in, forcing their way
over the sands, and through the crevices