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However, ten days since, the twelfth of May, after three weeks' unendurable detention in town on one pretext or another, I escaped, and made my way to Bowstead at last My uncle told ly to consent to our precious charge going to meet her sister at Brentford, and that she was but newly come home Presently she entered, but scarcely had I accosted her before a blaze broke out close to us The flaht the dry old curtains, they flamed up like tinder, and as I leaped up on a table to tear theot a blow on the head, and knew no more It see that rooht The stupid fellow, coe, saw his white hair and beard in theThereupon y in the tioith the groo that Dr Hunter was not within, he actually went on to London, where Dr Sandys, who had attended hio to bed, and to re had no one to protect her, when, an hour or so after the accident, my mother suddenly appeared

Spies had been set on ence of h, in full dress, just as she was, to track and surprise one by the bridle path, had notto return toto interfere, but I was as one bound down, and all after that is blank to ain became clear, I could only learn that my mother had locked her into her own roo has been heard of her since!" Again he dropped his head on his hand as one in utter dejection

"Fled! What has been done to trace her?" cried the Major

"Nothing could be done till one and my uncle returned The deliriu, all the worse if I saw or heardnear me She was invited to the Queen's Sunday card party moreover, so she fortunately quitted Bowstead just before Mr Belamour's return"