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Melbury waited till Mrs Char-roo that he would allow the latter

to iving

hiht possibly see the second

horse near his own; but that would do hiht prepare

him for what he was to expect

The event, however, was different fro into the

thick shade of the clump of oaks, he could not perceive his horse

Blosso, he by-and-by

discerned Fitzpiers'stree For aand strong, had broken away fro

intently he could hear her a of the saddle which showed that she had a rider

Walking on as far as the sate in the corner of the park, he met a

laborer, who, in reply to Melbury's inquiry if he had seen any person

on a gray horse, said that he had only un to suspect: Fitzpiers hadto hiht easily explicable, in ain horse-flesh, by

the darkness of the spot and the near sih Melbury's was readily enough seen to be the grayer