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eee ARGO SY" AUGUST, 1884. fee WW H PPE? Wit CH. CHAPTER XXII. DICK'S WOUNDS. HREE o'clock was chiming forth from the various clocks of Croxham Abbey in the early morning, as Godfrey Mayne left his step-mother’s room with his father, followed by Lydia. The maid swiftly disappeared. Godfrey dutifully accompanied Mr. Mayne to the door of his new quarters, the Swallow chamber, wished him good-night, and then went back along the cross passage, deep in thought. He knew that some audacious intruder must have got into the Abbey and penetrated to Mrs. Mayne’s room: a strong impression lay upon him that the man had not yet effected his escape, but was concealing himself somewhere or other. Was it Dick Wilding? Godfrey did not know. If it was, Mr. Dick should be treated to the soundest castigation he had ever yet experienced—and his migrations effectually stopped for the future. But it might not be Dick; Godfrey hardly thought it was: and he would never have thought of him at all in such a matter but for Dick’s escapade of the previous night. When he got into the main corridor, he walked noisily to the door of his chamber at the end of it, and shut it with a bang—but without going in. As he had on his dancing boots, he could tread pretty lightly ; however, he took them off; and as he did so it occurred to him that the very same precaution might have been taken by the midnight visitor outside the door of the refectory. Godfrey was about to see if he could find traces of this man, but he wanted to do it noise- lessly, lest the household should hear him and fall into another fright. As he came to the door of his stepmother’s room, he saw it was not quite closed. Lydia, who had been the last to pass out, might have left itso. Mary and her mother were talking in whispers, and Godfrey absolutely thought he heard also the tones of a man’s voice. Suddenly Mrs. Mayne’s was somewhat raised, so that Godfrey dis- tinguished her words, piteous, quavering, pleading : VOL, XXXVIII, G Gomichdoo