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All the proprietor in Mrs Hignett was roused This, she felt indignantly, was the sort of thing she had been afraid would happen the ht almost say anarchy--had set in directly she had removed the eye of authority She marched to theand pushed it open She had now co froht at the inn She stepped into the drawing-roo Eustace out of his sleep and giving hi failed tothe donett had always insisted it was that everyin the house hts-out

She pushed the curtains apart with a rattle and, at the same moment, froasp which made her resolute heart ju distinctly, but, in the instant before it turned and fled, she caught sight of a shadowy ure, and knew that her worst fears had been realised The figure was too tall to be Eustace, and Eustace, she kneas the onlyabout Windles, nett, bold woh she was, stood for an instant spellbound, and for one moment of not unpardonable panic, tried to tell herself that she had been mistaken Almost immediately, however, there cah sole and the noise of staggering feet Unless he was dancing a pas seul out of sheer lightness of heart, the nocturnal visitor

The latter theory was the correct one Montagu Webster was a man who at -pu in the proper circumstances pleased him better than to exercise the skill which had become his as the result of twelve private lessons at half-a-crown a visit: but he recognized the truth of the scriptural adage that there is a ti, and that this was not it His only desire when, stealing into the drawing-rooure, was to get back to his bedroom undetected He supposed that one of the fe a stroll in the grounds, and he did not wish to stay and be compelled to make laborious explanations of his presence there in the dark He decided to postpone the knocking on the cupboard door, which had been the signal arranged between himself and Sam, until a more suitable occasion In the meantime he bounded silently out into the hall, and instantaneously tripped over the portly forht sleep to the knowledge that so who always liked to be in the centre of the ate