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278 BLACK SHEEP.keeping close to the wall,and allowing thegroups,as they began to form, to form between her andthe edge of the platform. Once or twice she unclaspedher hands,and lifted her veil,andbreatheddeeply, then after onepiercingglance, which comprehendedevery face under the roof within itsvision, dropped it again. Once, as she did this, anursemaid with a child in her arms at the backof the platform noticed her,and said to a fellowservant:" That woman's face is enough to frightenone; she looks like death!"But life was strong inHarrietRouth,andhopewas strong in her also, a terrible hope, indeed,wliich to any suffering less than hers would haveworn the semblance of despair.A little whilenow ancl he would be safe, safe for the present,for the next few hours wliich were so all-important.The letter she had written,telling him allshe had done, ancl why, would await him atAmiens, and show him that all hia plans werevain, would convince him at last. The arrangementofhis money matters, wliich he must havemade for the flight he contemplated,wouldavailin