CHAPTER XX.
THE OUTLAW AND HIS VICTIM.
Lucy Munro re-entered the dwelling at a moment most inopportune.

It was not less her obvious policy than desire--prompted as well by the necessity of escaping the notice and consequent suspicions of those whom she had defrauded of their prey, as by a due sense of that delicate propriety which belonged to her sex, and which her education, as the reader will have conjectured, had taught her properly to estimate--that made her now seek to avoid scrutiny or observation at the moment of her return.

Though the niece, and now under the sole direction and authority of Munro, she was the child of one as little like that personage in spirit and pursuit as may well be imagined.

It is not necessary that we should dwell more particularly upon this difference.

It happened with the two brothers, as many of us have discovered in other cases, that their mental and moral make, though seemingly under the same tutorship, was widely dissimilar.