It is entered, besides, by a different door from that of the kitchen, and while you stay there--and you can pass into it without going through the kitchen--I will try to let her know where you are.

She has at present a maid who was sent by Sir Robert Whitecraft, and she is nothing else than a spy; but it'll go hard, or I'll baffle her." He accordingly placed Reilly in the servants' hall, and on his way to the drawing-room met Miss Folliard going to her own apartment, which commanded a view of the front of the house.

He instantly communicated to her the fact of Reilly's presence in the servants' hall; "but," added Lanigan, "you won't know him--his own mother, if she was livin', wouldn't know a bone in his body." "Oh!" she replied, whilst her eyes flashed fearfully, in fact, in a manner that startled the cook--"oh! if he is there I shall soon know him.

He has a voice, I think--he has a voice! Has he not, Lanigan ?" "Yes, ma'am," replied Lanigan, "he has a voice, and a heart too." "Oh! yes, yes," she said, "I must go to him; they want to marry me to that monster--to that bigot and persecutor, on this very day month; but, Lanigan, it shall never be--death a thousand times sooner than such a union.

If they attempt to bind us, death shall cut the link asunder--that I promise you, Lanigan.