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The startling discovery so terrified her that she could hardly repress a sound She withdrew her hand with a ht that the leather seeh to keep the owner of the foot in entire ignorance of it, and the noise of Manston's scraping ht rustle of her dress

The person was obviously not the steward: he was still busy It was souished, had taken advantage of the gloom, to come from some dark recess in the brewhouse and stand upon the brickwork of the copper The fear which had at first paralyzed her lessened with the birth of a sense that fear noas utter failure: she was in a desperate position and must abide by the consequences The motionless person on the copper was, equally with Manston, quite unconscious of her proxi behind the feet, till she found the key On its return to her side, her finger-tip ski

It was a o to the door just at this time was impolitic, and she shrank back into an inner corner to wait The comparative security from discovery that her new position ensured resuscitated reason a little, and eical inferences:-1 The e of the darkness to get there, as she had to enter

2 The man must have been hidden in the outhouse before she had reached the door

3 HeManston with much calculation and system, and for purposes of his own

She could now tell by the noises that Manston had completed his re-erection of the cupboard She heard hi the articles it had contained--bottle by bottle, tool by tool--after which he came into the brewhouse, went to the , and pulled down the cloths covering it; but thebeing rather s scarcely relieved the darkness of the interior He returned to the workshop, hoisted so to his back by a jerk, and felt about the rooed from the inner door, crossed the brewhouse, and went into the yard

Directly he stepped out she could see his outline by the light of the clouded and weaklyat his back, and in his hand he carried a spade

Anne noaited in her corner in breathless suspense for the proceedings of the other man In about half-a-minute she heard hi of the doorway showed the outline of this other watcher passing through it likewise The for coat He vanished after the steward