And so off she went that same night." "What night was that ?" slowly and faintly breathed Salome, without lifting her fallen head.
"Two nights before--before the marriage was to have been, my lady," answered the woman, in a low and hesitating tone.
"Proceed, please." "And now, my lady, I must tell you what happened at Lone, as I received it from her own lips this very morning, before I came here.

She went down to Scotland by the night express of the Great Northern, and arrived at Lone early in the morning of the day before the wedding-day that should have been.

She found great preparations going on for the marriage of the markis and the heiress.

She went over to the castle with the crowd of the country people who gathered there to see the grand decorations for the wedding.

But she saw nothing of the bride or of the bridegroom; and, moreover, she was warned off with threats by the servants of the castle.
But at length, towards night-fall, my lady, she saw Mr.John Scott, as he called himself, hanging about the Hereward Arms, and she 'went for him,' as the saying is.