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58 OUT OF IIER SFIIERE.<br />

obtaining the letters she had secured for<br />

him.<br />

" I shall go with a much easier mind if I<br />

know they're all right. I dare say that<br />

Jezebel will be wantino^ to have them<br />

back again. I wonder how Mrs. Thorn-<br />

ton persuaded <strong>her</strong> to give them up to<br />

<strong>her</strong>,"—and, as he raised his hand to the<br />

knocker, before he could reach it, the<br />

" Jezebel " <strong>of</strong> whom he had been thinking<br />

opened the door, and stood before him,<br />

trim, calm, demure and self-possessed as<br />

ever.<br />

'^ I saw you coming, Mr. Dale," she said<br />

''and, as Mr. Thornton is seriously ill, I<br />

made haste down that you should not<br />

knock and disturb him. We must have<br />

the knocker muffled. Will you please to<br />

step inside ?"<br />

He followed <strong>her</strong> into the dimng-room.<br />

Deb, who was in <strong>her</strong> kitchen, did not hear<br />

him, and Clare, closing the door, stood with

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