The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-20
, looking about her anziOusly little in the

| moment mRrBQen hOOeus 1Ou must have
seen her; and-and-Maior Daringham."
The last words seemed to choke him.
eyes," Dick nodded; ~ saw 'em all right"
| "Where are they, then 2n Lady Hone
snapped. "I can't find Hilda in the cloak
room. They say she's not there. Where can
she bef'
Dick faced the two strokng his mustaobe
calmly, but with an odd twinkle in his eyes
V.-YOuDg LOchinvar.
"Gonel'
The same word from all three, but in very
! different keys.
Really" began Marsden with a porten-
tous severity that hugely amused Dick. The
plutocrat didn't understand. My lady, with
the cidtrCoyance of woman Of the world, and
out of halt-formed suspicious of her own, un-
derstood everything in moment. She
glanced round her first to see that no one was
within hearing; then she said in savage STAG
cato to her nephew, "Ill never forgive you for
this, sir, as long as | live."
"Dear me, ck1re tantel What have done9"
returned the guileless youth, not quite certain
whether, as he expressed it, 'my lady was
fly to all the little game yet"
She wasted no time on him. Her hand
| grasped Marsden's arm with an energy that
startled that emotionless man. Emotionless,
though, no longer; for her words startled him
even more.
Don't you see p" my lady was whispering
impatiently. "She's gone-with him. They've
eloped Now listen l''-for he stared at her
as though she had suddenly gone mad. He
really thought she had. What His promised
wife dare SO far forget what was due to him as
to elope
"Listen !" Lady Hope repeated, actually
shaking him in her impatienoe. "This must
be prevented. They must be overtaken,
stopped AT any risk; at once You must
do it,
ar" Jefery Marsden gasped.
"You. Who else is there Richard is in
the plot. In another hour it may be too late.
Quick, man quick!"
He was beginning, electrified by this languid
womah's fierce, unwOnted energy, to under
stand now. He had been robbed, and by the
man he hated most. For the second or third
time that night the snow-water IN his veins
ran almost warm. She saw his face change.
"Will you go! To save her - to defeat
him, remember There may be time yet.'
eyes ~ he muttered between his blanched,
lean lips; "yOure right. There may be time
yet; and if overtake him! I'll go But,
how-wbere 7"
She had thought of everything, this clever
Lady Hope, omnisOient almost in her self-in-
terest.
"The other sledge 70 she answered: 'ft's
ready down there, by this time. Didn't you
hear him order it Follow the track. They
have gone to Ashbridge, l am nearly sure.
There is no train yet; you must prevent this
| But QOn' I waste LlLQ6 lou nave your COdL
and hat Quick ~
"Never fear!' he returned; aud the blanched
lips were actually guilty of an oath; 'pn
do it ~
He flung his coat about him, and hurried
through the inner glass doors out on to the
steps.
Dick, explaining matters to Helen soto roce,
had kept an eye on him all the time.
"Let me see about the carriage, Aunt
Hope ~ he observed. "Poor dear old JEFF
will catch his death of cold if you trot him
about on night like this"
He moved away in pursuit; though rather
wondering what JEFF could possibly do, you
know, after all.
Lady Hope caught him Just as he was push.
ing open the doors that Marsden had just
swung back. Through them he saw the latter
rush down the steps and leap (actually leap y
into his (Jocelyn's) sleigh, in readiness, as my
lady had foreseen, below; saw the horse plunge
and spring forward under the whip; saw his
man get knocked backwards and loose hi:
hold on the reins, and Jeffrey Marsden drive
furiously of and disappear.
"Oh by Jove you know" Dick began.
Lady Hope stopped him.
"Silence, sir ~ she said; 'do you want al
the world to know this l sent him to stoI
them. And he will"
"Will he ?" thought Dick ''he'll probably
break his own neck in the first i've minutes
that's ALP Then the thought of Jeffrey
Marsden driving sleigh about the country il
the dead of night, and coming to frightfu
grief against a gate-post or in side-drift
caused Ensign and Lieutenant Richard JocelyI
to laugh aloud.
"Take us to the carrisge, sir ~ his relative
said, majestically; "whatever happens, W,
had better not stay here"
They were all back again at Dane Cour
when they heard what had happened.
Swiftly, smoothly, flinging up littl,
shower of snow spray, and leaving straight
track behind it, that did credit to Don'l
Steering faster and faster, as Lucia warmed
to her work, between the high snow walls
on either hand, the sleigh that carried Ii
Mignonne and her Lochinvar whirled alonl
the white solitary road that led straight to thu
Ashbridge station, four or five miles off.
Mufled in her furs, and with the great buf
falo robe over her, Hilda lay back, only
answering her lovers attempts to reassurt
her by little sob now and then. The excite
mont OF the last hour or two had been lit
tie too much for the child.
"But it's all, right now, darling !",,Rawdor
said pleasantly, taking pull at the mare al
he topped the one long hill that lay between
Doodle Park and Ashbridge-''it's all right
now. We shall be at the D'Arbleys by dinner
time, comfortably. I've telegraphed to her t
meet Ia at the Nord terminus. She's abou
the only relation pve got left; and, as she's
fond of me, she'll simply worship you, yor
know II We've managed beautiiIuil, haven
wei Got away, and no one that msft1ara ~.
wiser JoVe though, I LIQUID like to sc,
the city mans ..Sce to morrow, or rather thi:
] morning. when he discoyers- En- what,