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The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn

CHAPTER 15: Petronella
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There was even some slight comfort in this thought, though it settled for ever the doubt in her mind.

She must leave the Gate House so soon as she was strong enough to walk, and she must find her brother in the forest, and place herself beneath his care.
The old servant approved the plan.

She herself could find a refuge at Trevlyn Chase; but that house would be no shelter for her young mistress.

Her father's authority would be enough to carry her back into captivity; and what her fate would be, were she to have escaped him once and be again brought back, was a thought to shudder at.
"I must go back to Cuthbert," she said to herself, as she looked over the fair landscape, and thought longingly of the cool, dim woods, and the free life of the forest.

Her own home was nothing now but a prison house.


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