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All the evening Melbury had been co, "I wonder

where in the world that girl is! Never in all my born days did I know

her bide out like this! She surely said she was going into the garden

to get soarden, the parsley-bed, and the orchard, but

could find no trace of her, and then he es

of such of his works's because

he knew the young people were to rise early to leave In these

inquiries one of the men's wives somewhat incautiously let out the fact

that she had heard a screah from which direction

she could not say

This set Melbury's fears on end He told the ht lanterns,

and headed by hi at the last

rapnels and ropes, which he could not be

persuaded to leave behind, and the co joined by the

hollow-turner and the

They explored the precincts of the village, and in a short tihted

upon the man-trap Its discovery si their conjectures; but Melbury's indefinite alarround, he saw in the teeth of