The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-07-30
CHAPTER xvI1.-continued.

VIII DO 40 good. madam, by going!" ]
said, rising. You viii! not find her.
She is gone
@Gone?"
Yes I said quietly. she left the
house 20 minutes ago, I saw her cross
the market place. wearing her cloak
will return
Not return2 But whittier has she
gomez" they both cried at once.
/ shook my head.
Il can only guess" I SAID in a low
voice. II saw no more than L have
told you"
But why did you not tell me?" the
duchess cried r~eproachfully. She shall
b. brought back"
1T would be useless. Master BERTHE
answered. yet / doubt If it be as
Carey thinks. Why should she go just
at this timer She does not know that
she Is found out. She does not know
that this letter has been recovered. Not
a word, mind, was said of it before she
left the room"
No. / allowed, that is true"
I was puzzled on his point myself,
now i am to consider it. 1 could not
see why she had taken the alarm so
opportunity, but / maintained my opin-
ION nevertheless.
"Jomething frightened her" I said,
though 1t may not have been the let
ter"
Yes" said the duchess after a mo-
snent's silence. Il you are
right. l suppose something frightened
her. as you say. / wonder what 1t was,
poor wretchi"
1t turned out that I was right. Mis-
fress Anne had gone indeed, having
etafd, SO far as we could learn from an
examination OF the room which she had
shared with Dymphna, merely to put
together the few things which our ad-
ventures had left her. She had gone
out from among us in this foreign land
without a word of farewell, without a
good wish given or received. without a
soul to say godspeed. The thought
rlade me tremble. II she had died. it
would have been different. Now, to feel
sorrow for her as for n who had
been with us In heart as well as In
body seemed a mockery. How could
we grieve for one who had moved day
by day and hour by hour among us
only that with each hour and day she
might plot and scheme and plan our
destruction? It was impossiblei
We made inquiries indeed, but with
out result, and SO abruptly and terribly
she passed, for the time, out OF our
knowledge. though often afterward /
recalled sadly the weary, hunted look
which I had sometimes seen in her
eyes when she sat ~1istless and dreamy. |
Soor girl! Her own acts had placed
her. as the duchess said. beyond love
or hope, but not beyond pity.
So It Is In life. The day which sees
ones trial end sees another,s begin
We, the duchess and her child, Master
Bertle and !, staid with our good and
Faithful friends. the Lindstroms.
awhile, resting and recruiting our
strength, and during this interval, at
The pressing instance of the duchess. /
svE0te letters to Sir Anthony and Pc
stating that I was abroad and
turn, but not disclosing my refuge or
h names of my companions. At the
end OF fl days, Master BERTHE being
fairly strong again, and Santon being
unsafe for us as a perma-
nent residence. we went under guard
to Vessel, where we were received as
people OF quality and lodged, there be-
no fitting place, In the dfsused
church OF st. Willibrod. Here the child
7 christened Peregrine--a wanderer
godfathers. And here we lived IN peace. |
albeit with hearts that yearned for
home. for some months.
During this time two pieces OF news
game to US from England-one that the
parliament, though much pressed Hc it,
OF the duchess estates the
other that our Joint prosecutor, the
great bishop OF Winchester, was dead.
This last we at first disbelieved. It
true nevertheless. Stephen Gard
4ners whose vast schemes had inmeshed
peopie SO far apart In station and In
In all else as the duchess ana my
was dead at last; q died toward
the end OF 1881. at the height OF his
power, with England at his feet, and
toShis Maker.1 have known many
We trusted that this might open the
wa Tor u return, but we found. on
the contrary, that fresh clouds we're
Rising. The persecution OF the REFORM.
ers. which Queen Mary had begun IN
flRi4n4 H. VA IN pfndEn nft i