The Cotton Factory Times. — 1900-08-03 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

CHAPTER XLHI. A VISIT TO VALDIXIS.  The same evening Net Fleming received a letter from the doctor attending Antoinette Deloraine, requesting Net to come without a day's delay, as Antoinette was in a very precarious condition, and wished to have Net with her. So it was arranged that all would leave by the same train in the morning, and travel together as far as Mistou Junction, where Net would continue her journey alone.  Punctually at five the next morning the travellers breakfasted, and were ready to commence their journey.  - The-three girls. went off to sleep, and they slept with little disturbance until the train reached Miston Junction. Here the friends paned company—Net to down to Devonshire, and the others to go up to iockley.  On arriving at Yockley, about 11 o'clock, Lord Beaudevere engaged a fly, put his young companions in it, and ordered the driver to go to the prison, and in a short space of time they reached the high stone walls and rolled through the great iron gate of the prison yard. They were not kept waiting. A warder conducted them to Valdimir's cell and opened the door.  The baron whispered a word to the turnkey, who started off at once and opened the cell door and left it open before they came up. Lord Beandevere's money and care had converted the cold, ba.re prison cell into a most comfortable sitting-room, and Valdimir Deeparde was seated in the ec.sy chair, leaning over his little writing-table. He turned his head on hearing approaching footsteps, and seeing Lord Beandevere leading in Arielle Montjoie he sprang up to meet them. Tie held out both hands and clasped hers warmly, while he gazed iuto her eye 4 in anxious. que4,oniug  love. What he read there gave him courage to draw her to his bosom, and press his lips upon her brow. And hardly a syllable passed between them but the inevitable low-breathed words:  " Arielle!" "Valdimir I" He then turned to his sister, and met hei• as warmly 9.8 he had met his Arlene.  Andlastly he shook hai-id;witii..his kinsman, and thanked him for bringing these dear ones to comfort him.  Then the two Ode sat down on the sofa with Valdinair between thou).  And then they talked freely of Valdimir' s case and prospects, which the young man considered safe, notwithstanding that detectives had found no trace of Brandon Coyle, nor any gentleman who remembered coming up by the London and South Western train with any gentleman answering to Valdimir Desparde's description. " Nevertheless I am not a whit discouraged. And indeed, though my detention here is disagreeable enough and the occasion tragic enotigi.. vet I cannot help seeing a ludicrous side to this farce of falling into the trap of that railway carriage and being arrested for midnight murder." "The police are looking after Brandcn Coyle on another count !" saidtord Beandevere, impulsively; and he immediately regretted that he had done so. " Indeed 1 But I do not wonder I On what other count ?" inquired Valdimir. "I will tell you another time, my bo*." Arielle and Valdimir did most of the talking, as they had plenty to say to each other, the time flew rapidly by until the baron told his young protegees that they must put on *heir coats and hats and be ready to go, for they had stayed to the last minute of their time.  The parting with the prisoner was a sad one, notwithstanding that he bore himself with the greatest cheerfulness, and that Lord Beaudevere promised to return every day to see him, and fetch and carry messages between Yockley and Montjoie. On reaching Castle Montjoie the footman handed a letter to Lord Beaudevere, who took it and examined it carefully. "It is post-marked London, and directed to Mrs. Fleming's home in Church-lane. It has been sent on here. Come into the library a moment, Adams. I will put this letter in another envelope and direct it, and do you put it in the carrier's box to-night. It may be important,' said the baron.  - - And it was important, for it was that very letter which poor Kit Ken had cunningly written to Mrs. Fleming and left with her landlady to be forwarded after ten days, unless good news arrived of her.