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However, as the as not large, he experienced no alarain, and with soainst the rails, to listen to the intensely melancholy yet musical wail of the fir-tops, and as the wind passed on, the prompt moan of an adjacent plantation in reply He could just dimly discern the airy su restlessly backwards and forwards, and stretching out their boughs like hairy ar and eenial to his mood; all of human kind seeht hand caused him to start from his reverie, and turn in that direction There, before hi the trees a fountain of sparks and s forward towards hi pictures; then the old darkness, more iin to his iraphical features of that end of the estate, had been but momentary; the disturbance, a well-known one to dwellers by a railway, being caused by the 650 down-train passing along a shallow cutting in the midst of the wood i the fire-door of the engine open at thehim, already considerably slackened speed, and nohistle was heard, announcing that Carriford Road Station was not far in its van

But contrary to the natural order of things, the discovery that it was only a commonplace train had not caused Manston to stir fro the railway

If the 650 down-train had been a flash of forked lightning transfixing him to the earth, he could scarcely have reainst the railings, his right hand still continued pressing on his walking-stick, his weight on one foot, his other heel raised, his eyes wide open towards the blackness of the cutting The onlyof the lower jaw, separating his previously closed lips a little way, as when a strange conviction rushes home suddenly upon a man A new surprise, not nearly so trivial as the first, had taken possession of him

It was on this account At one of the illuone by, he had seen a pale face, reclining upon one hand, the light fro full upon it The face was a woman's