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Cousin Monica this morning, at pleasant Elverston, all-unconscious of my sad plight, proposed to Lady Mary Carysbroke and Lord Ilbury, her guests, to drive over to church at Feltram, and then pay us a visit at Bartram-Haugh, to which they readily agreed. Accordingly, at about two o'clock, this pleasant party of three arrived at Bartram.
And then that night I had the key to some of the mysterious doings at Bartram-Haugh the comings and goings in the darkness which had so often startled me the face of Madame de la Rougierre peeped into the room. III. A Night of Terror Shortly afterwards I lost Milly, who was sent to a French school, where I was to follow her in three months.
At length, worn out, I dropped asleep, and in a dream I distinctly heard papa's voice say sharply outside the bed-curtain: 'Maud, we shall be late at Bartram-Haugh. And I awoke in a horror, the wall, as it seemed, still ringing with the summons, and the speaker, I fancied, standing at the other side of the curtain. A miserable night I passed.
Bartram-Haugh: '30th January, 1845. 'Be so good as to take the half-past eight o'clock train to Dover to-night. Beds are prepared. Yours very truly, I cannot say what it was in this short advice that struck me with fear. Was it the thick line beneath the word 'Dover, that was so uncalled for, and gave me a faint but terrible sense of something preconcerted? I said to Madame
Besides, he had written two letters to a friend, saying how profitable he had found his visit to Bartram-Haugh, and that he held Uncle Silas's I O U's for a frightful sum; and although my uncle stoutly alleged he did not owe him a guinea, there had scarcely been time in one evening for him to win back so much money.
Old Hawkes stood his ground, relying on the profound cunning with which their actual proceedings had been concealed, even from the suspicions of the two inmates of the house, and on the mystery that habitually shrouded Bartram-Haugh and all its belongings from the eyes of the outer world.
If so, Maud, it is blowing from Bartram-Haugh, too, over the trees and chimneys of that old place, and the mysterious old man, who is quite right in thinking I don't like him; and I can fancy him an old enchanter in his castle, waving his familiar spirits on the wind to fetch and carry tidings of our occupations here.
'They'll say, you know, that she is not fit for a lady's maid, as she certainly is not, if it in the least signified in such a wilderness as Bartram-Haugh; but she is attached, trustworthy, and honest; and those are qualities valuable everywhere, especially in a solitude. Don't allow them to get you a wicked young French milliner in her stead.
I am very glad to leave Bartram-Haugh, at all events. 'But your uncle weel bring you back there, said Madame, drily. 'It is doubtful whether he will ever return to Bartram himself, I said. 'Ah! said Madame, with a long-drawn nasal intonation, 'you theenk I hate you. You are quaite wrong, my dear Maud. I am, on the contrary, very much interested for you I am, I assure you, dear a cheaile.
I waved my handkerchief from the window; and now the park-wall hid all from view, and at a great pace, throught the steep wooded glen, with the rocky and precipitous character of a ravine, we glided; and when the road next emerged, Bartram-Haugh was a misty mass of forest and chimneys, slope and hollow, and we within a few minutes of the station.
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