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Drip, drip, drip, fell the rain upon her u because of the seriousness of the matter in

hand; yet now she had allowed her mission to be stultified by a

an incident which perhaps hadafter all

In the mean time her departure from the room, stealthy as it had been,

had roused Fitzpiers, and he sat up In the reflection from the mirror

which Grace had beheld there was no mystery; he had opened his eyes for

a few moments, but had immediately relapsed into unconsciousness, if,

indeed, he had ever been positively awake That somebody had just left

the room he was certain, and that the lovely form which seemed to have

visited him in a dream was no less than the real presentation of the

person departed he could hardly doubt

Looking out of thea few ravel-path which led to the bottoh it enter the young girl of his thoughts, Grace having

just at this juncture determined to return and atte instead of going made him ask