15/32 You have done your best for him; you can do no more." "I will not--I cannot believe it," said Catharine. "Heaven be merciful to me! it would make one doubt of Providence, to think so great a crime has been accomplished." "Doubt not of Providence, Catharine, though it has suffered the profligate to fall by his own devices. Follow me; I have that to say which concerns you. I say follow (for she hesitated), unless you prefer being left to the mercies of the brute Bonthron and the mediciner Henbane Dwining." "I will follow you," said Catharine. "You cannot do more to me than you are permitted." He led the way into the tower, and mounted staircase after staircase and ladder after ladder. |