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But there is not only my mind available--you are a shreoman, Cythie, and Edward is an earnest ally Then, if we really get a sure footing for a criminal prosecution, the Croill take up the case' 'I don't ood can it do us, Owen, after all?' 'Selfishly speaking, it will do this good--that all the facts of your journey to Southampton will become known, and the scandal will die Besides, Manston will have to suffer--it's an act of justice to you and to other woht it necessary to tell her of the real nature of the Springroves' obligation to Miss Aldclyffe--and their nearly certain knowledge that Manston was the pri their embarrassment Her face flushed as she listened

'And now,' he said, 'our first undertaking is to find out where Mrs

Manston lived during the separation; next, when the first communications passed between them after the fire' 'If we only had Miss Aldclyffe's countenance and assistance as I used to have the we should be! O, what power is it that he exercises over her, swaying her just as he wishes! She loves me now Mrs Morris in her letter said that Miss Aldclyffe prayed forMiss Aldclyffe did notit, either Yet in opposition to this, notice her dead silence and inaction throughout this proceeding' 'It is a mystery; but never mind that now,' said Owen i We et this part of it first--learn the place of her stay in the early stage of their separation, during the period of Manston's arrival here, and so on, for that here she was first co to Knapwater, before the fire; and that address, too, was her point of departure when she caht--you know--the ti and went ho, and it was found that he had been visited too

Ah! couldn't we inquire of Mrs Leat, who keeps the post-office at Carriford, if she remembers where the letters to Mrs Manston were directed?' 'He never posted his letters to her in the parish--it was re to her address ht not be found in the report of the inquest in the Casterbridge Chronicle of the date Soiven in the papers to a certainty' Her brother caught eagerly at the suggestion 'Who has a file of the Chronicles?' he said