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ROTHA'S CONFESSION.
And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Coleridge.
When Reuben Thwaite formed this resolution he was less than a mile from Shoulthwaite.

In the house on the Moss, Rotha was then sitting alone, save for the silent presence of the unconscious Mrs.Ray.

The day's work was done.

It had been market day, and Willy Ray had not returned from Gaskarth.