The girl had fled in the night.
Who she was, or where she had gone, was to them the darkest, deepest mystery.

Would it ever be revealed?
They could not discuss it with the old minister or any of the neighbors, for their lips were sealed in eternal silence concerning the matter.
"I feel sure the end of this matter is not yet," said old Adam, prophetically.

"When the girl comes face to face with the dastardly villain she wedded that night, it will end in a tragedy." "God forbid!" murmured his wife with a shudder; but down in her own heart she felt that her husband had spoken the truth; the tragic end of this affair had not yet come..