Octavia's Pride; or, The Missing Witness — page 242: what you’re looking at

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Te +s J - ; a hy ® 232 OCTAVIA'S PRIDE. well for you, Mother Woodstock, that you concluded to tell me the truth. We'll get to the bottom of it presently. My George is coming, and he will look into it. My son is com- ing to England. The vessel is looked for every day.” - And having told this with as much proud importance as if he had informed her of his inheritance of a throne, he took his leave, taking with him the ring Ceara the Wain- wright crest. The vailed woman came out from the pawnbroker’s shop at the corner a moment after, and followed him as before, to the very door- my of the second-rate hotel where he was stopping. Mathew yond up the long flights of stairs, and his pursuer, alter a moment's hesttabian: followed, and as he took the key from his pocket, and unlocking the door passed in, she came on and looked carefully, not only at the num- ber of his door, but at those adjacent. She went back down stairs to the room allotted for the boarders’ sitting-room, found the housekeeper, and was presently installed in a room on the same corridor, which commanded a good view of Mathew Merle’s chamber door. When she was safely alone in this room the woman drew a long, shuddering breath, threw back her vail, and showed Jane West’s facé, but, alas! with a lack of the old freshness and cheeriness. ‘There were dark circles under the eyes, which shone with their old steadiness, but held also a fever- ish brightness. She looked worn and tired, but desperately earnest, and’set upon some purpose, from which it was plain to see no idle circumstance could turn her aside. She left her door ajar, and sat down where she could catch the first movement from the room beyond. When the gong sounded Mathew Merle was prompt to appear. He locked the door again and put the key in his pocket, and then Wohi sire de- scended to the dining-room. in Jane West came out stealthily and silently, a are of ee. “ ; - ; - _o be 4 ie 7 : v 4 ay 4, te 4 | : | : a) of J 3 COmMmICcCDOOKS | . , “ Ta AY Ny > } Ve i iy 7 a i z belt Mead a teh Ky y te Lae sh Ra eh) Ree : « PA 44 ! Bir ,