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him now

She wondered why he never looked towards her openShe did not

know that in the slight commotion caused by their arrival at the inn

that afternoon Winterborne had caught sight of her through the archway,

had turned red, and was continuing his ith more concentrated

attention on the very account of his discovery Robert Creedle, too,

who travelled with Giles, had been incidentally infor ere in the hotel, after which

news Creedle kept shaking his head and saying to himself, "Ah!" very

audibly, between his thrusts at the screw of the cider-press

"Why the deuce do you sigh like that, Robert?" asked Winterborne, at

last

"Ah, hts!Yes, ye've lost a

hundred load o' tiood h to

hold a dozen faons and their horses--all lost!--through your letting slip she that

was once yer own!"

"Good God, Creedle, you'll drive me mad!" said Giles, sternly "Don't

speak of that any more!"