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Out of her sphere - University Library

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A BOLD GAME FLAYED LN VAIN. 5^<br />

<strong>her</strong> back to it ; and then, in a voice, low,<br />

calm, distinct, but totally dijBPerent, in the<br />

threatening under-tone pervading it, from<br />

the well-bred accents with which she had<br />

met him at the door, said, *'What have<br />

you done with Mrs. Thornton ?"<br />

He looked up surprised. She saw in a<br />

moment that, let whatever might have oc-<br />

curred yesterday, he knew nothing ; but<br />

she would not let him see that she credited<br />

his ignorance. She went on<br />

—<br />

" Yesterday Mrs. Thornton left <strong>her</strong> house<br />

to meet you, by appointment, at the Fort.<br />

It is useless to deny it, Mr. Audley Dale.<br />

You are clever at deception, as I know, but<br />

you cannot deceive me in this. She has<br />

not returned home—we have heard nothing<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong>. Perhaps, if you choose, you can<br />

tell us something."<br />

He was alarmed—too much so at first to<br />

trouble himself about the covert insolence<br />

in Clare's tone. The tide was coming in

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