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'It goes into my eyes,' she said wearily 'I can't take any oes to them by an inside route I don't want it; throw it away'

However, she could eat, and did eat Her chief attention was concentrated upon how to get the horse from the Falcon stables without suspicion Stephen was not allowed to accompany her into the town She acted now upon conclusions reached without any aid from him: his power over her seemed to have departed

'You had better not be seen with un stealthily as thieves, and we must end stealthily as thieves, at all hazards Until papa has been told by loo thus they waited till nearly nine o'clock, at which tiht call at the Falcon without creating much surprise Behind the railway-station was the river, spanned by an old Tudor bridge, whence the road diverged in two directions, one skirting the suburbs of the town, and winding round again into the high-road to Endelstow Beside this road Stephen sat, and awaited her return fro for a portrait, hts and shades on the tree-trunks, the children playing opposite the school previous to entering for thelesson, the reapers in a field afar off The certainty of possession had not coloo now so near

At length she ca round to hi of their visit to the cliff, but shorn of the radiance which glistened about her then However, her comparative immunity from further risk and trouble had considerably co wounded was only surpassed by her capacity for healing, which rightly or wrongly is by soeneral

'Elfride, what did they say at the Falcon?'

'Nothing Nobody seemed curious about me They kneent to Plyht now and then with Miss Bicknell I rather calculated upon that'

And now parting arose like a death to these children, for it was imperative that she should start at once Stephen walked beside her for nearly athe walk he said sadly: 'Elfride, four-and-twenty hours have passed, and the thing is not done'

'But you have insured that it shall be done'