Mr. Van Draagen ought to come down handsomely
for such an extra fine sample; but in the meantime he accepted
the rouleau of guineas that Loveday handed to him, the proceeds,
as she told Mrs. Darke, of my Lady's winnings last night at loo.
All was ready. Poor Aurelia was swathed from head to foot in a large
mantle, like the chrysalis whose name she bore, the two sailors took
her up between them, carried her to their boat, and laid her along in
the stern. Then they pushed off and rowed down the river. Loveday
looked up and looked down, then sank on the steps, convulsed with
grief, sobbing bitterly. "She said He could deliver her from the
mouth of lions! And He has not," she murmured under her breath,
in utter misery and hopelessness.
CHAPTER XXXIV. DOWN THE RIVER.
The lioness, ye may move her
To give o'er her prey,
But ye'll ne'er stop a lover,
He will find out the way.
Elizabeth Delavie and her little brother were standing in the bay
window of their hotel, gazing eagerly along the street in hopes of
seeing the Major return, when Sir Amyas was seen riding hastily up
on his charger, in full accoutrements, with a soldier following.
In another moment he had dashed up stairs, and saying, "Sister,
read that!" put into Betty's hand a slip of paper on which was
written in pencil--
"If Sir A.
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