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1 NOVEMBER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH UNTIL TEN PM

Monday came, the day named for Mrs Manston's journey froreat events, influencing the present and future of nearly all the personages whose actions in a cos of the steward de his breakfast on this particularthat was to take hi ready at the door, Manston hurriedly cast his eyes down the column of Bradshahich showed the details and duration of the selected train's journey

The inspection was carelesslykept open by the aid of one hand, whilst the other still held his cup of coffee; much more carelessly than would have been the case had the expected new-comer been Cytherea Graye, instead of his laife

He did not perceive, branching froer ran, a s-line, inserted at a particular place, to imply that at that point the train was divided into two

By this oversight he understood that the arrival of his wife at Carriford Road Station would not be till late in the evening: by the second half of the train, containing the third-class passengers, and passing two hours and three-quarters later than the previous one, by which the lady, as a second-class passenger, would really be brought

He then considered that there would be plenty of tieave proper and precise directions to his servant on the preparations that were to be , and drove off to Lord Claydonfield's, at Chettlewood

He went along by the front of Knapwater House He could not help turning to look at what he knew to be theof Cytherea's room

Whilst he looked, a hopeless expression of passionate love and sensuous anguish caered there for a few seconds; then, as on previous occasions, it was resolutely repressed, and he trotted along the sht of the young girl whose beauty and grace had so enslaved hi of the same day, Mrs Manston reached Carriford Road Station, her husband was still at Chettlewood, ignorant of her arrival, and on looking up and down the platforn that any preparation whatever had been made for her reception and conduct home