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290 REYNOLDS’ WORKS to love the object of your affection. But Lady Macdonald, what think you of her? ”’ “Her ladyship was most amiable,’’ replied William. ‘‘ Altogether, both Angela and myself had every cause to be pleased and flattered by the visit. We are to dine in Cavendish Square the day after to-morrow.’ “I know it, for we are to be there to meet you,” replied his lordship. ‘‘ Lady Everton will in the meanwhile have become Marchioness of Hagledean. Klizabeth and Adolphus will also be of the party.” “And Frank, your amiable son Frank? ” asked William. ‘“ He is going upon a journey, of which I will tell you more particulars another time. By the bye, I thought I had some- thing to communicate, which perhaps is of more or less consequence, but whether it will prove so, we shall see. That woman whom you rescued from drowning, and who is to call at your residence in the evening of the 21st of this month, at nine o’clock, —is it not so? ”’ “Yes, my lord; it was in the evening of the 21st of July that she gave the appointment that day month, hour for hour. Oh, I have not forgotten it, and often and often do I ask myself what secrets he may have to reveal, or whether it were not all the outpouring of a half-crazed brain.”’ “ No, I do not think so,”’ interrupted the marquis. “* From the particulars you narrated to me, I am inclined to anticipate that she will really have something of importance to com- municate. But I was -about to tell you something more concerning her. It happened that this afternoon my daugh- ter Elizabeth had a conversation with me on certain matters regarding Frank, and in the course of what took place, she mentioned several little things which had occurred at Saxondale House during the last few weeks of his residence there. Amongst those occurrences were certain visits, paid under very mysterious circumstances to Lady Saxondale, by a woman precisely answering the description of that same person whom you rescued from the River Trent.” “Ah! then doubtless she was on her way at the time to pay a visit to the castle,’ exclaimed William Deveril. ‘“ T recollect that she spoke a great deal of Lady Saxondale. How peremptorily she demanded what I was doing in that neighbourhood. And how strangely she told me that i I myself had been to the castle, it was somewhat important Gomichbooks (E(o)