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The woh of relief, and moved forward to follow

Simultaneously, she discovered that the watcher whose foot she had touched was, in his turn, watched and followed also

It was by one of her own sex Anne Seaway shrank backward again

The unknooman came forward from the further side of the yard, and pondered awhile in hesitation Tall, dark, and closely wrapped, she stood up from the earth like a cypress She htest disturbance by her footsteps, and went in the direction the others had taken

Anne waited yet another minute--then in her turn noiselessly followed the last woman

But so i, that in co out of the yard she turned her head to see if any person were following her, in the sa behind the angle of the stable, Manston's horse and gig, ready harnessed

He did intend to fly after all, then, she thought He must have placed the horse in readiness, in the interval between his leaving the house and her exit by the ever, there was not tiht's events She turned about again, and continued on the trail of the other three

6 FROM MIDNIGHT TO HALF-PAST ONE AM

Intentness pervaded everything; Night herself seemed to have becolade, and into the park plantation, at equi-distances of about seventy yards Here the ground, coe, was coated with a thick moss which was as soft as velvet beneath their feet The first watcher, that is, theimmediately behind Manston, now fell back, when Manston's housekeeper, knowing the ground pretty well, dived circuitously aot directly behind the steward, who, encumbered with his load, had proceeded but slowly

The other woman seemed now to be about opposite to Anne, or a little in advance, but on Manston's other hand

He reached a pit, ine-house

There he stopped, wiped his face, and listened

Into this pit had drifted uncounted generations of withered leaves, half filling it Oak, beech, and chestnut, rotten and brown alike, led themselves in one fibrous mass Manston descended into thethe leaves aside into a large heap, began digging Anne softly drew nearer, crept into a bush, and turning her head to survey the rest, missed the man who had dropped behind, and e have called the first watcher Concluding that he, too, had hidden himself, she turned her attention to the second watcher, the other woman, who had , and now seated herself behind a tree, still closer to the steward than was Anne Seaway