er godfather court

ou to my house. My clerk will do what is necessary at the hotel. You don’t look

ittle startled, on discovering that he was in consultation with the police. “I remember that we are in Ireland,” sh

inspire sentiments of alarm — not unmingled with admiration — in the mind of his insensible goddaughter, by exhibiting himself as a public character threatened by a conspiracy, was more than the banker’s vanity could

without being influenced by his own point of view. On the first occasion when he mentioned Arth

Mr. Arthur

we were both children. He is as dear to me as if he wa

could only write to him, and she did write to him, by that day’s post — having reasons of her own for anxiety, which forbade her to show her letter to Dennis. Well aware of the devoted friendship which united Lord Harry and Arthur Mountjoy — and bea

, during the interval that elapsed before it would be possible to receive Arthur’s reply. The day arrived — and the post brought no relief to her anxieties. The next day passed without a letter. On the morning

ng the letter to Iris. “Does t

he lines t

by daylight. My one hope of safety is in darkness. Meet me at the first milestone, on the road to Garva

an to go?”

“My dear child, do pray try to think before you s

man prisoner

tain

olice in another room. Iris dropped into the nearest chair. The tur

, composed and smiling. The course of proceedin

password. He was to be followed by two of his men who would wait in concealment, within hearing of his whistle, if their services were required.

awed Irish lord — the man whom she was forbidden, and rightly forbidden, to marry — as she loved him at that moment. Let the risk be what it might, this resolute woman had determined that the S

scended the stairs to her godfather’s dressing-room. Opening his wardrobe, she discovered in one part of it a large Spanish cloak, and,

own, she went out, and asked her way to Garvan of the first respectable stranger whom she met in the street. Her object was to walk as far as the first milestone, in

to wait patiently at home. He went away to the police-office, eager

. At nine the servants assembled at the supper-table. They wer

isguise as the clock struck nine. She left the house without a living creature to notice her, indoors or out. Clouds wer