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The voice of his distress was sufficiently loud to be audible to any

one who ht and

left of the narrow pass between the oaks were dense bushes; and now

frolided, whose appearance even in the

glooe

She was in white up to the waist, and figured above She was, in

short, Grace, his wife, lacking the portion of her dress which the gin

retained

"Don't be grieved about

up and bending over hi on to find

you after I had released myself, but I heard footsteps; and I hid away,

because I ithout soht be"

Fitzpiers had sprung to his feet, and his next act was no less

unpremeditated by him than it was irresistible by her, and would have

been so by any woth He clasped his arms

completely round, pressed her to his breast, and kissed her

passionately