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The Banshee .-- Disappearance of Grace Davoren.
In the meantime it was certainly an unquestionable fact that Grace Davoren had disappeared, and not even a trace of her could be found.

The unfortunate girl, alarmed at the tragic incident of that woful night, and impressed with a belief that Charles Lindsay had been murdered by Shawn-na-Middogue, had betaken herself to some place of concealment which no search on behalf of her friends could discover.

In fact, her disappearance was involved in a mystery as deep as the alarm and distress it occasioned.

But what astonished the public most was the fact that Charles, whose whole life had been untainted by a single act of impropriety, much less of profligacy, should have been discovered in such a heartless and unprincipled intrigue with the daughter of one of his father's tenants, an innocent girl, who, as such, was entitled to protection rather than injury at his hands.
Whilst this tumult was abroad, and the country was in an unusual state of alarm and agitation, Harry Woodward took, matters very quietly.