"Wherever Amabel goes, I shall not be far off." "Faithful to the last!" exclaimed Hodges.

"Well, I shall not oppose you.
We must take care the Earl of Rochester does not get a hint of our proceeding.

At this time a chance meeting (were it nothing more) might prove fatal to the object of our solicitude." Leonard said nothing, but the colour fled his cheek, and his lips slightly quivered.

In a few seconds more they reached the grocer's house.
They found him at the window anxiously expecting them; and Doctor Hodges, being drawn up in the same way as before, was conducted to Amabel's chamber.

She was reclining in an easy-chair, with the Bible on her knee; and though she was much wasted away, she looked more lovely than ever.