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"God forgiveof what he had done "He

tried me too sorely; and now perhaps I've murdered him!"

He turned round in the saddle and looked towards the spot on which

Fitzpiers had fallen To his great surprise he beheld the surgeon rise

to his feet with a bound, as if unhurt, and walk away rapidly under the

trees

Melbury listened till the rustle of Fitzpiers's footsteps died away

"It ht have been a cri leaves for his fall," he said to himself And then his nation so mounted

within hi

man there and then

He had not ridden far when he discerned his own grayfor a er animal, now disheartened at its freak

He thenback,

endeavored to find so pitifully that,

after all, he had gone further than he intended with the offender

But though he threaded the wood hither and thither, his toes ploughing

layer after layer of the little horny scrolls that had once been

leaves, he could not find hi