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"You walk very fast!" said he again, but still she deigned hiht see beneath her hood

"Dear lady," said he very gently, "if I offended you a while

ago--forgiveaway fro you, Mr Beverley"

"Why, surely it is a woive, Cleone--and my

name--"

"And a iven, I suppose, Mr Beverley"

"When he repents as I do, Cleone; and hed

"Yet you still walk very fast"

"It must be nearly ten o'clock"

"I suppose so," said Barnabas, "and you will, naturally, be anxious

to reach hoain"

"Home," she said bitterly; "I have no hoaol--a prison Yes, a hateful, hateful prison, watched

by a one-legged gaoler, and guarded by a one-ar stopped to stamp her foot, she walked on

faster than ever

"Can you possibly mean old Jerry and the Captain?"

Here my lady paused in her quick walk, and even condescended to look

at Barnabas

"Do you happen to know them too, sir?"

"Yes; and , sir?"

"Yes; andlip; "this has been quite an

eventful day for you"

"On the whole, I think it has; and may I remind you that my--"