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Mr. Harper did not ride home by midnight, as his wife was well assured he would not do, though with some idle hope put into her mind by Eulalie, she sat at the window until the stars whitened in the dawn.
At noon -- which seemed to come slowly, every hour a day -- Mr. Dugdale appeared with a message, which by some wondrous good fortune he remembered to deliver -- that Nathanael had returned from Weymouth to Kingcombe, and was waiting there. Agatha gathered with difficulty that her husband wished her to return with Mr. Dugdale.