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"Your Highness, that was bravely done," said he, and kneeling he kissed

her hand He went back into the embrasure, slipped the bundle over his

arm, and opened thevery silently He saw the snoas still

falling, the wind still

the streets He set his knee upon the -ledge, climbed out, and

drew theto behind him

The Princess-mother waited in the room with her hand upon her heart She

waited, it seemed to her, for an eternity Then she heard the sound of a

heavy fall, and the clang of a ainst the wall of the villa But

she heard no cry She ran to theand looked out But strain her

eyes as shestore, for the sentinel

lay senseless on the snow against the house-wall, and Mr Wogan was

already running down the avenue

Under the fourth tree he found Cleether, wrestling with the wind, wading through the snow It

seemed to Clementina that her cole word to her; he dragged her with a fierce grip upon

her wrist; if she stuhly to her feet She set