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He leant forward then and put his lips to her snarling fangs, but though she kept snarling she did not bite hiarden that opened into a little paddock against a wood

When he opened it she went through it like an arrow, crossed the paddock like a puff of sht Then, suddenly finding himself alone, Mr Tebrick ca her by na into the wood, and through it for about aalmost blindly

At last when he orn out he sat down, seeing that she had gone beyond recovery and it was already night Then, rising, he walked slowly homewards, wearied and spent in spirit As he went he bound up his hand that was still running with blood His coat was torn, his hat lost, and his face scratched right across with briars Now in cold blood he began to reflect on what he had done and to repent bitterly having set his wife free He had betrayed her so that now, from his act, she o all the rigours and hardships of the climate, and all the hazards of a hunted creature When Mr Tebrick got back to the cottage he found Mrs Cork was sitting up for him It was already late

"What have you done with Mrs Tebrick, sir? I missed her, and Iso up for you half the night And where is she now, sir?" She accosted hith he said: "I have let her go She has run away"

"Poor Miss Silvia!" cried the old woo indeed! Poor lady, is that the way for her husband to talk! It is a disgrace But I saw it co from the first"

The old woman hite with fury, she did notto her At last he looked at her and saw that she had just begun to cry, so he went out of the room and up to bed, and lay down as he was, in his clothes, utterly exhausted, and fell into a dog's sleep, starting up every now and then with horror, and then falling back with fatigue It was late when he woke up, but cold and raw, and he felt craain the noise which had woken hi of several horses, and the voices ofby the house Mr Tebrick jumped up and ran to theand then looked out, and the first thing that he saas a gentleht Mr Tebrick waited no longer, but pulling on his boots into say that they ht kill her