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They met no one, however, until they were come to the outskirts of the

town But then as they passed the mouth of an alley awas chill, and the uish his face or person, and looking down the

alley he saw at the end of it only a garden wall, and over the top of

the wall a thicket of trees and the chist them He rode on, secure in the secrecy of his

desperate adventure But that sa and asked to be adan

had not yet returned to Bologna

"So, indeed, I thought," said he; and he sauntered carelessly along, not

to his own house, but to one smaller, situated at the bottost trees At the door he asked whether

her Ladyship was yet visible, and was at once shown into a rooarden Her Ladyship lay upon a

sofa sipping her coffee and teasing a spaniel with the toe of her

slipper

"You are early," she said with some surprise

"And yet no earlier than your Ladyship," said Whittington

"I have toa yawn

"Could one, I ask you, sleep on so ienially Then he opened the door and glanced

along the passage When he turned back into the room her Ladyship had