Arrest the dead.

She had never heard of a like calamity: nor could she have believed in such.

Arrest it for what purpose?
What to do?
To disfigure it ?--to sell it?
With a panting heart and ashy lips, she turned from the room.

Mrs.Mason happened to be passing near the stairs, and Isabel flew to her, laying hold of her with both hands, in her terror, as she burst into a fit of nervous tears.
"Those men--in there!" she gasped.
"What men, my lady ?" returned Mrs.Mason, surprised.
"I don't know; I don't know.

I think they are going to stop there; they say they have taken papa." After a pause of bewildered astonishment, the housekeeper left her standing where she was, and went to the earl's chamber, to see if she could fathom the mystery of the words.