CHAPTER XII.
"BLACK MASK"-- "WHITE MASK." "Finish your story!" exclaimed Miriam, impatiently.

"Morning is coming, and like owls and bats and other noxious creatures, I hide from the daylight.

How did you escape ?" "I didn't escape," said Mollie.

"I couldn't.

The week expired--my masked husband kept his word and sent me home." "Sent you! Did he not fetch you ?" "No; the man who drove the carriage--who, with the girl Sarah, witnessed the marriage--brought me.