CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.
Discoveries at Browndown IT is needless to tell you at what conclusion I arrived, as soon as I was sufficiently myself to think at all.
Thanks to my adventurous past life, I have got the habit of deciding quickly in serious emergencies of all sorts.

In the present emergency--as I saw it--there were two things to be done.

One, to go instantly with help to Browndown: the other, to keep the knowledge of what had happened from Lucilla until I could get back again, and prepare her for the discovery.
I looked at Mrs.Finch.She had dropped helplessly into a chair.

"Rouse yourself!" I said--and shook her.

It was no time for sympathizing with swoons and hysterics.