The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 38: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE DRAMA OF A NIGHT 21 by the entrance of one of the men into the vehicle. The door was then banged, his two companions leaped upon the box, the postilions cracked their whips, and away sped the equipage in the direction of the highroad leading to Lau- sanne. Meanwhile, Doctor Maravelli, hearing the tread of several footsteps, the sounds of voices, and then the galloping off of a post-chaise along the road skirting the back of the villa, was seized with nervous misgivings, and finding that his veiled guide returned not, but that all was still around, he felt convinced that something most unexpected and mysterious had occurred, and not knowing to what dangers he himself might be exposed, he hastened to scale the wall and beat a eam retreat back to his own house at Geneva. CORNICLOO! cS (CO) mM