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6. FROM MIDNIGHT TO HALF-PAST ONE A.M.
6. FROM MIDNIGHT TO HALF-PAST ONE A.M.Intentness pervaded everything; Night herself seemed to have become a watcher. The four persons proceeded across the glade, and into the park plantation, at equidistances of about seventy yards. Here the ground, completely overhung by the foliage, was coated with a thick moss which was as soft as velvet beneath their feet. The first watcher, that is, the man walking immediately behind Manston, now fell back, when Manston's housekeeper, knowing the ground pretty well, dived circuitously among the trees and got directly behind the steward, who, encumbered with his load, had proceeded but slowly. The other woman seemed now to be about opposite to Anne, or a little in advance, but on Manston's other hand. He reached a pit, midway between the w
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