The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 92: what you’re looking at

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THE GAOL 75 would have all the same felt it her duty to see Miss Marshall safe to her own residence. “You will now snatch a few hours of that repose which must be so necessary,” said the lady to Kate, when they reached the door of the hotel. ‘“ By ten o’clock I shall again be with you, the bearer of Edward Russell’s pardon, and you will then lose no time in despatching another courier with the precious document to Count Christoval at Barce- lona.”’ The minister’s wife bade Kate a temporary farewell, and the house porter speedily answering her summons at the gate, she obtained admission into the hotel. Seeking her own chamber, she lost no time in retiring to rest, and, well-nigh exhausted both in mind and body, she soon fell into a pro- found slumber. When she awoke, it was nine o’clock, and the good-hearted landlady was standing by the side of the couch, infinitely rejoiced to have heard that her guest had come back in the middle of the night, and to find that the intelligence given to her by the house porter to this effect was indeed true. But inasmuch as the landlady had been kept in ignorance of all those transactions which weve going on in respect to the minister, his wife, and the stratagem devised by the latter, the worthy woman could not conceive now it was possible Kate had been arrested as a Carlist spy, — an allegation which she herself had not for an instunt believed. She accordingly said that she supposed it had been all a mistake on the part of the police, and Kate, not wishing to be led into further explanations, readily assured the landlady that such was the case. _ At ten o’clock, faithful to her promise, the minister’s wife — again closely veiled — called upon Kate, and presented her with a packet, not only containing her lover’s pardon, but likewise the letters which had been taken from her trunk on the preceding night. Again did Miss Marshall pour forth her fervid gratitude to the excellent-hearted lady; again was her joy displayed with bright smiles and glistening tears. Oh, to think that she should have succeeded in her cherished aim after having experienced so many threatening adventures, so much affliction, and even at one time so much despair! This crowning happiness wus almost too much for her, but she was not one of those women who are CONNIE DOOKS (C(O)