CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.
BLANCHE.
MRS.

INCHBARE was the first person who acted in the emergency.

She called for lights; and sternly rebuked the house-maid, who brought them, for not having closed the house door.

"Ye feckless ne'er-do-weel!" cried the landlady; "the wind's blawn the candles oot." The woman declared (with perfect truth) that the door had been closed.
An awkward dispute might have ensued if Blanche had not diverted Mrs.
Inchbare's attention to herself.

The appearance of the lights disclosed her, wet through with her arms round Anne's neck.