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THE PRISONER OF HIS WORD.
Nothing to rouse alarm was discovered at Carlsruhe.

Livia's fair cousin was there with the red-haired gaunt girl of the mountains; and it was frankly stated by Henrietta, that she had accompanied the girl a certain distance along the Strasburg road, for her to see the last of her brother Chillon on his way to England.

Livia was not the woman to push inquiries.

On that subject, she merely said, as soon as they were alone together: 'You seem to have had the lion's share of the parting.' 'Yes, we passed Mr.Chumley Potts,' was Henrietta's immediate answer; and her reference to him disarmed Livia.
They smiled at his name transiently, but in agreement: the tattler-spout of their set was, a fatal person to encounter, and each deemed the sudden apparition of him in the very early morning along the Carlsruhe road rather magical.
'You place particular confidence in Russett's fidelity to his word, Riette--as you have been hearing yourself called.