She arrived in time to hear his menace to her fellow-servant.
"Ah, that's right; give it him, your honour; bless your good heart!--that's what I says.

Miss rob the house! says I--Miss run away.
Oh no--depend on it they have murdered her and buried the body." Maltravers gasped for breath, but without uttering another word he re-entered the chaise and drove to the house of the magistrate.

He found that functionary a worthy and intelligent man of the world.

To him he confided the secret of Alice's birth and his own.

The magistrate concurred with him in believing that Alice had been discovered and removed by her father.