Thrice Lost, Thrice Won — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Pe: “allow her ito cross the threshold, and old Judith was a very ae dragon of fidelity to her grim master. Sa Monday came, and with it a ray of hope to Estella. The _ butcher’ s boy, from Rockledge, bringing the meat for dinner, ae brought also a tiny note for Miss Mallory. Estella chanced to be alone in the kitchen when he came, ah ‘Judith upstairs over her chamber-work. The note was in ree be hand. With a cry of delight she tore it open and ae a : “On Tuesday night, at half past nine, meet me at the old ve 2 Place. All is ready. Don’t. fail.” me J « ae a great bound. z be “YTl meet him, if I have to jump ‘out of the window!” ie m4 thought. “Marry Roysten Darrell, indeed! Not if I were to be hung, drawn and quartered for refusing.” = Tuesday came—a wet, windy day. All the morning Es- - tella remained shut up in her room; all the afternoon she wandered about the house, in a’ fever of anxiety. Night. ‘S closed down early—wetter and windier than the day. - That was all; but it was Dick’s writing, and her Hitiot gave a Fortune seemed to. favor her. Judith was laid up with . rheumatism; and obliged ‘to go to bed at dark. Groaninge with pain, she ordered Estella up to her room, mS locked the house door, and hobbled off to her own. : TPS Nine o’elock, and all was still. Twenty minutes past, and ie nothing to be heard but the tumult of wind_and rain. 4 Wrapped in her shawl, and wearing a hat and thick veil, _ Estella stole downstairs, unfastened the house door with = trembling fingers, and stood out in the wet darkness—free! . She did not pause a second. Heedless of wind and rain, pe “and pitehy darkness, she fled to the place of tryst. : = | the. dark background, ‘waiting. ae et “stella,” he said, in a whisper, “is it you?”. oes. - “Tt ig I, Dick. Quick! I may be missed.” c ; ce Be - He took her hand and hurried her on. A buggy stood So side her, and drove off like the wind. 6 Bec There was no time to talk—they flew along too quickly— ar and the’ uproar of the storm would have drowned their voices. ce Dick's cap was pulled over his nose, and his coat-collar - turned up, so that his face was completely hidden. hee. _ ’ * . st TT we er A a3 For nearly an howr they rattled along ; ; then he pulled up : ~ . T~ ae ~ % mae Bt adden ly—before a light glimmering in the dark. | ox ‘his is the place,” he said, hurriedly. “The clergyman wa. aiting. ~Quick!” | Peta 5 te lrew her along—into a house—into a room. A smoky es | ‘Was Dick there? Yes; a man stood dimly outlined against e waiting on the road. He lifted her i in, sprang to the seat be- : 2 01 ily “made: he darkness es and through her veil =: ».comick Oe ‘S.GO