I fancied afterwards that that cry must have been heard, and that, if there had been any creature in the house inclined to help me, there would have come an end to my sufferings.

But the time passed, and there was no change; only the long dreary days, the wretched sleepless nights." This was all.

There were details of her sufferings which Marian told her faithful friend by-and-by, when her mind was calmer, and they had leisure for tranquil talk; but the story was all told; and Marian lay down to rest in the familiar room, unspeakably grateful to God for her rescue, and only eager that her husband should be informed of her safety.

She had not yet been told that he had crossed the Atlantic in search of her, deluded by a false scent.

Ellen feared to tell her this at first; and she had taken it for granted that John Saltram was still in London.