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"I believe you," said Sir Norh, "and I'm only too sure she has been abducted by

that consue"

"Count who?" said Hubert, with a quick start, and a look of intense

curiosity "What was the nae--a scoundrel of the deepest dye! Perhaps you know hi smile, "no; but I have a

notion I have heard the name Was he a rival of yours?"

"I should think so! He was to have been ht!"

"He was, eh! And what prevented the ceree to say, not at all

offended at the boy's faue-pit but for me And when she recovered she accepted e! The lady's heart e, to be able to hold so many at once"

"It never held hi; "she was forced into

the e by her mercenary friends Oh! if I had hihwayh the head, and done for

hio!"

"What is he like--this Count L'Estrange?" said Hubert, carelessly

"Like the black-hearted traitor and villain he is!" replied Sir Norht but passing glimpses

of the count's features, and those showed hi like a coward and an abductor as

he is, in a slouched hat and shadowy cloak Oh! if I had him here!"

repeated Sir Norman, with vivacity; "wouldn't I--"