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However, he has lost his last chance of getting across the Channel

It is reported that he has since changed clothes with a labourer' During this narration, Edward, lost in thought, had let his eyes follow a shabby ht boots--as stalking down the street under a bundle of strahich overhung and concealed his head It was a very ordinary circumstance for ahis head, to go down the High Street Edward saw hie which divided the town froy encurove now parted from his acquaintance, and went also in the direction of the bridge, and some way beyond it As far as he could see stretched the turnpike road, and, while he was looking, he noticed a e at a point two hundred, or two hundred and fifty yards ahead, cross the road, and go through a wicket on the other side This figure see the bundle of straw He looked at the straw: it still stood alone

The subjoined facts sprang, as it were, into juxtaposition in his brain:-Manston had been seen wearing the clothes of a labouring man--a brown smock-frock So had this hts: and he had concealed his face by his bundle of straith the greatest ease and naturalness

The path theother places, to Tolchurch, where Cytherea was living

If Mrs Manston was ht of the fire, Cytherea was the steward's laife Manston at bay, and reckless of results, ht rush to his wife and harm her

It was a horrible supposition for a rove could not resist its influence He started off for Tolchurch

2 ONE TO TWO O'CLOCK PM

On that self-sa to Tolchurch by the footpath across the fields, Owen Graye had left the village and was riding along the turnpike road to the county-town, that he e ru Manston Not to disquiet his sister, he had said nothing to her of theFrom her position she could see up the lane for a distance of at least a hundred yards Passers-by were so rare in this retired nook, that the eyes of those elt by the wayside were invariably lifted to every one on the road, great and small, as to a novelty