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lady, young and beautiful, in bride robes, lying apparently dead on her

young ht, the discreet matron, over

whose virtuous head fifty years and a snohite cap had passed, started

back with a slight screa of this?"

"My dear Mrs Preston," began Sir Norue, and--"

But all further explanation was cut short by a horrified shriek from the

old lady, and a precipitate rush fro the other servants as she went, between her screae, went in search of her five minutes after,

he found not only the kitchen, but the whole house deserted

"Well," said Or fiery hot and

savagely angry

"Well, they have all fled, every round out so not quite proper, behind his o for the doctor, myself Doctor Forbes is a friend of

at hi here, lest she should recover consciousness before I

return?"

"To tell you the truth," said Or frankness, "I

should! The lady is extremely beautiful, I must own; but she looks

uncomfortably corpse-like at this present ue, either, until I see La Masque once more; and so if it is

all the sareatest pleasure

in stepping round with you to the doctor's"