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34 THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. CHAPTER V. THE TRAGEDIES AT THE HIGH ALTAR. AGAIN the gabled house, and the man and woman in earnest conversation. ‘This time they managed to elude the watchers, and depart entirely unobserved. They took the same direction as before, and as they approached the monastery the clock of the great tower chimed the half hour after five, full an hour too soon, but they decided to go on and wait at their respective posts. ‘T’he man had at first decided to leave before the woman’s meeting with the monk, but changed his mind, and resolved to be at hearing distance, in case the woman faltered in her design. He asked her if she was quite assured she could induce the monk to leave, and her answer satisfying him, the pair arrived at the entrance of the church and peeped in ‘here were no worshippers; all was still, and the man looked about the church for a place from which he could watch the interview and be himself unseen. He found what he wanted in the nave, behind the monument to the first Lord Mayor of London, a long distance off from the place of meeting in the chancel, but the only spot which suited his purpose. I*he hour of waiting seemed interminable; the woman paced the church with anxious steps, and the autumn day began to wane. Darker and darker the church became, great shadows were cast over Gomicbooks.co