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The accident, such as it had been, was soon re the hill on the Hintock side, soon to turn

into the lane leading out of the highway, and then into the "drong"

which led out of the lane to the house where she was

A spash Grace The Daphnean instinct, exceptionally

strong in her as a girl, had been revived by her ed seclusion; and

it was not lessened by her affronted sentiard for another man She opened so-table, scribbled in pencil on one of theathered a few toilet

necessaries into a hand-bag, and not three minutes after that voice

had been heard, her sliht have been seen passing out of the back door of Melbury's house

Thence she skie,

and into the mossy cart-track under the trees which led into the depth

of the woods

The leaves overhead were now in their latter green--so opaque, that it

was darker at some of the densest spots than in winter-tiet down to the ground But in

open places she could see well enough Su in every sunbealobes of dew; and after showers creeping daht chills came up from the hollows The plantations were always

weird at this hour of eve--more spectral far than in the leafless

season, when there were fewer lossy plants cae faces and figures frohts that had