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"The little fool!" she murmured pettishly "Does she think that I ahs? Oh, coed out of this!" And she started briskly towards the alders,

intent on gaining coone about fifty yards, and had as many more to traverse when she

halted Athe farther side

of the brook, a little in front of her Now she saw hiain, through a screen of

branches He moved with the uter; and for a moment she deemed him a peasant who But when he came

opposite to the alder-bed she saw that that was his point, for he

crouched down, sheltered by a , and gazed eagerly a the trees,

alith his back to her; and then he waved his hand to some one in

the wood

Madame St Lo drew in her breath As if he had heard the sound--which

was impossible--the man dropped dohere he stood, crawled a yard or

two on his face, and disappeared

Mada to see hi happened, she screamed She was a woman of quick impulses,

essentially fe

where she was, her eyes on the edge of the wood "If that does not bring

her out, nothing will!" she thought

It brought her An instant, and the Countess appeared, and hurried in