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CHAPTER III.<br />

HAROLD Thornton's return home.<br />

XT was dark that night when Harold<br />

Thornton reached his home ;<br />

Clare let<br />

him in, and one look at his blanched face,<br />

with the blood still oozing from a cut in his<br />

temple, his garments stained with salt<br />

water, and the worn, utter hopelessness <strong>of</strong><br />

his face, told <strong>her</strong> something very near the<br />

truth. He had avenged <strong>her</strong> on his wife,<br />

after such a sort as she had not dared to<br />

hope for ;<br />

anything so tragic as that which<br />

she guessed must have happened, was<br />

beyond <strong>her</strong> wildest fancies. She made no<br />

remark, she lit his candle when he asked<br />

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