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The Squire found that duty was a cold comforter as the wretched hours

wore on

Sanderson had slunk from the house without a word ieneral upheaval no one missed him, and when

they did it was too late for theuilty shoulders

The professor followed Kate with the ;

he did not dare atteht of a woman in tears

unnerved hirief; he could

only wait patiently for some circumstance to arise in which he could be

of assistance In thewithin

his power--he went about from time to time, poked the fires and put on

coal

Marthy would have liked to discuss the iniquity of Lennox Sanderson

with any one--it was a subject on which she could have spent hours--but

no one seemed inclined to divert Marthy conversationally In fact, her

popularity was not greater that night in the household than that of the

Squire She spent her ti

hysterically: "Land sakes! Ain't it dreadful?"

The tension grew as ti with the haunting fear of the worst grew harder to bear than