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"She saw sohtened," she said, in a low voice, checking Toentleman, ould have pressed with the inconsiderate

croard the senseless figure Mr Aylett had laid upon the sofa

"Will you see what it was?"

The request cleared the room directly of all the men of the

asse

physician, as superintending the administration of restoratives

to Mrs Aylett

She was reviving rapidly when the search party gave in their report

There were fresh tracks upon the piazza, and these they had traced

to the back of the house, losing the like a hurricane, and ploughing what had fallen and

as descending into constantly changing heaps But the

watch-dogs had been unchained, and four of the negroto ain before bed-time

The effect of this co

upon the patient The wild, terrified look in her eye rese fear of lunacy as she seized her husband's arht or safe to make such

a serious matter of my foolish nervousness I am not sure there was

any one there! It was probably an optical delusion I was plunged in

a reverie, thinking of happy, peaceful, lovely things"--with the

sickly feint of ato