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"Your lord!" stammered Vincent, red to the roots of his hair "Your

lord! I never knew that you loved a lord" He gulped, and went on at

random--"And where is your lord?"

"I cannot tell He may be in this castle I only know that I shall see

him when his time comes"

"If he is in this castle, Isoult," said Vincent, sober again, "his

tiht her breath

"How do you know that?" she panted

"I know that there is a great lord in the Red Chamber, him that Madam

Maulfry tends with her own hands"

"Ah, ah! You have seen hiazed at him, shocked to the soul Ill, and she not near by!

"Oh, Vincent," she whispered "Oh, Vincent!"

"Yes, Isoult,"--Vincent had caught some breath of her horror, and

whispered,--"Yes, Isoult, he is very ill He has been ill since the

autu I know that is true,

though I have never seen hiht here swathed up in a

litter; but I once saw Mada in the wood, very

early in the s here, such as I dare not utter even now So I watchedup what she had concealed They were bloody clothes, Isoult,

very ! So it is true"