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At this moment Dora's eyes turn slowly toward Arthur Dynecourt She herself hardly knohy, at this particular time, she should look at him, yet she feels that soaze to encounter his Their eyes meet As they do so, Dora shudders and turns deadly pale There is that in Arthur Dynecourt's dark and sullen eyes that strikes her cold with terror and vague forebodings of evil It is a wicked look that overspreads the man's face--a cruel, iazes at him spell-bound Slowly, even while she watches hilance froh to let her know that the vile thought that is working in his brain and is betraying itself on his face is intended for hiives her silently to understand that, if she shows any treachery toward hihtened, treers backward, and, laying a hand upon the wall beside her, tries to regain her self-possession The others are all talking together, she is therefore unobserved She stands, still panting and pallid, trying to collect her thoughts

Only one thing co of herself and an unna and falseness toward Florence, she has seemed to enter into a compact with this man to be a companion in whatever crime heher doith him to his level She feels herself chained to him--his partner in a vile conspiracy And what further adds to the horror of the situation is the knowledge that she knows herself to be blindly ignorant of whatever plans he

After a few seconds she rouses herself, and wins back soree of composure It is of course a mere weakness to believe herself in the power of Arthur Dynecourt, she tries to convince herself He is no more than any other ordinary acquaintance If indeed she has helped him a little in his efforts to secure the love of Florence, there was no great harh of course it served her own purpose also

"How pale you are, Mrs Talbot?" re round to look at her more closely "Has this dao down again, and forget in the sunshine that bloody deeds were ever committed here or elsewhere"