But I will tell you how I obtained an interview with her.

After a long search, I discovered the place of her concealment, the old hall I have just mentioned, and climbed in the night, and at the hazard of my life, to the window of the chamber where she was confined.

I saw and spoke with her; and having arranged a plan by which I hoped to accomplish her deliverance on the following night, descended.

Whether our brief conference was overheard, and communicated to the earl, I know not; but it would seem so, for he secretly departed with her the next morning, taking the road, as I subsequently learnt, to London.

I instantly started in pursuit, and had reached Paddington, when I fell ill, as I have related." "What you tell me in some measure eases my mind," replied Mr.Bloundel, after a pause; "for I feel that my daughter, if alive, will be able to resist her persecutor.