Thrice Wedded, but Only Once a Wife — page 147: what you’re looking at

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438 - (HRICE WEDDED. then entered and signified her readiness to show them to their sleeping-room. Both felt their need of rest, and followed her to the apartment behind the one they had first entered, where they found a soft and inviting bed, hung with dainty white curtains, and everything fresh, sweet, and clean. They re- tired to rest, and soon their senses were locked fast in sound and refreshing slumber. CHAPTER XXIV. DORA’S SURPRISE. Midnight found the night calm, quiet, lovely. The roaring winds had ceased, and the clouds had been suddenly swept aside by a master-hand, and the blue- vaulted heavens, studded with their sparkling gems, looked serenely down upon earth and sea. Our weary travelers lay wholly unconscious of the change without, their eyelids heavy with the weight of sleep, and their bodies cumbered with its powerful influence, But see! Suddenly their white-draped couch begins to move! Slowly, silently, steadily, it commences to descend! Heavens: “Will not some one warn those unconscious sleepers! Will not some one bid them awake, arise, and flee? Ah! but what could two such defenseless women do — against the powers at work. : "They could not escape even should they awake, for the entrance to that innocent looking white cottage was closely euarded, and none could enter or retreat without the knowl- edge and consent of that rough, stern sentinel! Reader, vou doubtless recognize the place as the same to which ‘Robert Ellerton was so adroitly enticed and made a prisoner. The villain who had knocked madam’s faithful driver senseless from his seat had driven the unsuspecting women back, though by an unfrequented road, to the German set- tlement which they had but just left. And now they were in the power of a band of heartless villains, sleeping as calmly and sweetly as if no such thing as danger or oe oem LRARE LEG the earth t | —_— = com ebo0 ‘S co