A Struggle for a Ring — page 398: what you’re looking at

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” 394 “YOU HAVE CRUELLY MIS¥UDGED. ME.” Roubart will ever write to me about you, but if she does so, I will say simply you have leit my employ, and that I know nothing of you.” : ‘‘You will/never tell her one word of this, Lady Wal- drove?” pleaded the girl; and the hard, worldly heart of the countess was touched by the pitiful voice and the piti- ful wards. | ‘‘No,” she replied; ‘‘I promise you, Ailie Derwent, that Madame Roubart shall never know one syllable of it. Now you had better go; you will have time to get ready before noon. Lady Gertrude will see to your departure. Do not say good-by to me,” she added, abruptly, and with a wave of her hand she quitted the room. | Ailie neither moved nor spoke. She was like one lost in a trance ora dream. She did not even seem to notice that Lady Waldrove had gone away until Lady Gertrude, with infinite compassion shining in her face, cweqhaee: her arm gently. ‘* Miss Derwent,” she said, ‘‘you have HOt much time to lose. I will send my maid to help you.” And then Ailie went with trembling, uncertain steps to her room. CHAPTER LIX. ‘‘YOU HAVE CRUELLY MISJUDGED ME.” Lady Gertrude Carsdale could not rest. No one could have been more indignant than she when she first dis= covered what she honestly believed to be the young girl’s co Eomicbooks