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Springing from the bed, she tried the other door of her roo, and not readily observed by a person unfamiliar with the house It yielded to her hand, and she knew there was a whole suite of e with one another It was one of those suhts that are never absolutely dark, and there was a full h to throw off her conspicuous white habit, all scorched and singed as it was, and to put on her dark blue cloth one, with her camlet cloak and hood She made up a small bundle of clothes, took her purse, which ell filled with guineas and silver, and ht her all theshoes in her hand, and her feet slippered, she noiselessly crept through one empty room after another, and descended the stair into her own lobby, where she kne to open the sash door

One ht that Mr Belamour would protect her made her pause, but the white phantom she had seen seemed more unreal than the voice she was accustomed to, and both alike had vanished and abandoned her to her fate Nay, she had been cheated froht be co! She darted out, down the steps, along the path like a wild bird froe