At the conclusion of the ceremony, I returned with Sarah to the inner room, and the Reverend Mr.Rashleigh was safely taken home." There was a pause.

Mollie sat looking with knitted brows into the fire.
"Well ?" questioned Miriam, sharply.
"I stayed there a week," went on Mollie, hurriedly.

"It was part of the compact, and if he was to keep his, and liberate me, I was to remain quietly as long as I had promised.

But it was not so long in passing.

I had the range of two or three rooms--all with carefully closed blinds, however--and I had a piano and plenty of books, and as much of Miss Sarah Grant's society as I chose.