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Fitzpiers stu down his hand to

ascertain the obstruction, it came in contact with a confused mass of

silken drapery and iron-work that conveyed absolutely no explanatory

idea to his mind at all It was but the work of a ealed his blood

The man-trap was thrown; and between its jaas part of a woripped with such violence that the

iron teeth had passed through it, skewering its tissue in a score of

places He inized the skirt as that of one of his

wife's gowns--the gown that she had hen she met him on the very

last occasion

Fitzpiers had often studied the effect of these instru the collection at Hintock House, and the conception instantly

flashed through hiled by

so left

behind in the difficulty of getting her free The shock of this

conviction, striking into the very current of high hope, was so great

that he cried out like one in corporal agony, and in his rees and qualities of punishainst Grace first began, not any even

approxi! Oh, cruel Heaven--it is toohimself over the sorry accessaries of her

he deplored