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She turned as if to hasten away But Felice Charmond's sobs came to

her ear: deep darkness circled her about, the funereal trees rocked and

chanted their diriges and placebos around her, and she did not knohich way to go After a ain, and

turned to the motionless woman at her feet

"Are you rested?" she asked, in what seerown ten years older

Without an answer Mrs Charmond slowly rose

"You mean to betray me!" she said from the bitterest depths of her

soul "Oh fool, fool I!"

"No," said Grace, shortly "IBut let us be quick

now We have a serious undertaking before us Think of nothing but

going straight on"

They walked on in profound silence, pulling back boughs noing

wet, and treading dooodbine, but still keeping a pretty straight

course Grace began to be thoroughly worn out, and her companion too,

when, on a sudden, they broke into the deserted highway at the hill-top

on which the Sherton nized the spot as soon as she looked around her

"Hoe have got here I cannot tell," she said, with cold civility