He placed Lady Helen in the carriage--Mr.Carlyon assisted the nurse and little Mildred.

Then Sir Jasper gave the order, "Home," and the stately carriage of the Kingslands, with its emblazoned crest, whirled away in a cloud of dust.

For an instant he stood looking after it.
"Curses on it!" he muttered between set teeth.

"After all these years, are those dead doings to be flung in my face?
I thought her dead and gone; and lo! in the hour of my triumph she rises as if from the grave to confound me.

Her daughter, too! I never knew she had a child! Good heavens! how these wild oats we sow in youth flourish and multiply with their bitter, bad fruit!" He turned and strode into the vestry.