The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 157: what you’re looking at

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140 REYNOLDS’. WORKS mine. My belief is that Edmund has gone to rejoin his wife, who is in Lincolnshire. Thither shall I proceed under cir- cumstances of becoming caution, but if it be necessary, I will write to you. At all events lose no time in carrying out that which you have undertaken to perform; and if it should transpire that Edmund has remained in London, and accident should throw him in your way, do your best to renew all your former intimacy with him, worm yourself into his confidence, make yourself necessary to him, — you know how to do it,—and then we shall determine what future measures to adopt.’’ Lord Harold Staunton— who was once again entirely enmeshed in the trammels which his own self-interest as well as his passion tor Lady Saxondale wove around him — promised full comphance with her injunctions and assured her that so soon as his arrangements could be accomplished, he would make the attempt to get Madge Somers away from Deveriu’s house. Lady Saxondale then set off privately into Lincolnshire, travelling by a post-chaise without any attendants, and under an assumed name. On her arrival in the county where the castle was situated, she would not go to Gainsborough, as she was too well known there; and she calculated that 11 Edmund had really rejoined his wife at the castle, they would both be upon the alert and would not fail to take measures for obtaining prompt information in case new dangers should threaten. Therefore Lady Saxon- dale went to Lincoln, and thence she despatched a person to make inquiries privately and cautiously in the neighbour- hood of the castle to ascertain whether Edmund and Ade- laide were resident there. The emissary returned to Lincoln with the intelligence that Lord Saxondale had been to the castle, that he only stayed there an hour or two, and then departed with his wife. They were attended only by Adelaide’s own maid, and no one at the castle knew whither they had gone. Lady Saxondale was much annoyed at these tidings, for she had no great difficulty in fathoming the plans of her son and her daughter-in-law, and she knew that, however silly and thoughtless he might be, his wife was an astute and cunning creature, who would give him the best counsel and adopt the most fitting measures to enable him to baffle any fresh designs against his liberty. / CONNIE DOOKS (E(0)