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I need not follow the steps by which the inquiry-office became able / so far to enlighten the mother of Emmeline concerning the person and / habits of the visitor to the deserted shaft, that she had now come / to Glaston in pursuit of yet farther discovery concerning him. She / had no plan in her mind, and as yet merely intended going to church / and everywhere else where people congregated, in the hope of / something turning up to direct inquiry. Not a suspicion of Leopold / had ever crossed her. She did not even know that he had a sister in / Glaston, for Emmeline's friends had not all been intimate with her / parents.
On the morning after her arrival, she went out early to take a walk, / and brood over her cherished vengeance; and finding her way into the / park, wandered about in it for some time. Leaving it at length by / another gate, and inquiring the way to Glaston, she was directed to / a footpath which would lead her thither across the fields. Following / this, she came to a stile, and being rather weary with her long / walk, sat down on it.