Out of her sphere - University Library

30 OUT OF HER SPHERE.
" I wonder if he went in tliar to meet
liis lady, an' if slie ha' given him the shp.
I saw her go in, an' I suj)pose she hev cum
out without my lookin'. 'Twar the pas-
sun's wife of St. Hilder, I reckon, an' if
so, thar's some queer game or other goin'
on, which the passun would n't like to hear
of, I should say."
He chuckled quietly to himself. This
was a little tit-bit of scandal which would
give as great a relish to his supper, as the
shrimps he was going home to boil, would
to the teas and breakfasts of the visitors
to Wearmouth :
and then he went on his
way, dismissing the matter from his
thoughts, till, like the fishermen who had
heard Henrietta Thornton's frenzied cry,
things came to pass which made him, too,
remember the events of that afternoon.
Audley Dale had scarcely left the Fort
when Harold Thornton struggled into its
lower chamber like a drunken man. He