CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE DISCOVERY.
All was done as had been arranged.

Lord Herbert saddled Dick, not unaided of Dorothy, lifted her to his back, and led her to the gate, in full vision of Marquis, who went wild at the sight, and threatened to pull down kennel and all in his endeavours to follow them.

Lord Herbert himself opened the yard gate, for the horses had already been suppered, and the men were in bed.

He then walked by her side down to the brick gate.

A moment there, and she was free and alone, with the wide green fields and the yellow moonlight all about her.
She had some difficulty in making Dick go slowly--quietly she could not--for the first minute or two, as lord Herbert had directed.