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TREPANNED.
Master Lionel was absent most of the following day from Penarrow, upon a pretext of making certain purchases in Truro.

It would be half-past seven when he returned; and as he entered he met Sir Oliver in the hall.
"I have a message for you from Godolphin Court," he announced, and saw his brother stiffen and his face change colour.

"A boy met me at the gates and bade me tell you that Mistress Rosamund desires a word with you forthwith." Sir Oliver's heart almost stopped, then went off at a gallop.

She asked for him! She had softened perhaps from her yesterday's relentlessness.
She would consent at last to see him! "Be thou blessed for these good tidings!" he answered on a note of high excitement.