CHAPTER XXIII.
THE close of the next day did not bring Mr.Markland, but only a hurried letter, saying that important business would probably keep him in New York a day or two longer.

A postscript to the letter read thus: "Mr.Elbridge will send you a deed of some warehouse property that I have sold.

Sign and return it by the bearer." If Mr.Markland had only said where a letter would reach him in New York, his wife would have lost no time in writing fully on the subject of Mr.Lyon's conduct toward Fanny.

But, as there was great uncertainty about this, she felt that she could only await his return.

And now she blamed herself deeply for having kept her word to Fanny.