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The forlorn and desolate Lilias, believing herself to stand alone in the world, was very loth to quit her shelter and her friends at St.
Though they had pretended to be disappointed at not being allowed to go to the theater, in reality they were all extremely tired and glad to rest. Dulcie in particular snuggled down on her pillow and was asleep even before Lilias turned off the electric light. The others were not long in following suit, and in a short time all were in the land of dreams.
"You are saucy, sirrah," said the Lady "Lilias, take him with you instantly." "I always thought," said Lilias, smiling, as she seized the reluctant boy by the arm, "that my young master must give place to my old one." "And you, too, are malapert, mistress!" said the Lady; "hath the moon changed, that ye all of you thus forget yourselves?"
I think I have the best right to my brother's daughter." And she drew the little girl fondly towards her as she spoke. "Oh, aunt," exclaimed Lilias eagerly, "if I could really help you and be a comfort to you, I would like nothing half so well." "You can be useful to me. You are a comfort to me. I hardly know how I could part from you now, dear.
"What's this I hear about you, Lilias?" he asked sternly. "I'm not proud of you, my dear, not proud at all! I did not think that a daughter of mine could have behaved in such an unwomanly manner. Your affection seems good only for fair weather. Talbot is well rid of such a wife!"
No trouble has seemed so bad since then; and none ever will again, come what may." "Come what may!" Little was Lilias thinking of all that might be hidden in those words. She gradually came to know, as that night and the next day and night passed away, and the dawning of the third day found her mother no better, but rather worse. Mrs Blair had concealed her own anxiety, for the children's sake.
The fresh air somewhat revived her; and on opening her eyes and seeing the little girl, she stretched out her arms for her. `Lilias! my little Lily! she's saved, she whispered, as she pressed her lips to the child's brow. `May Heaven reward you! "It was the final effort of exhausted nature, and in a few minutes she breathed her last.
Full in the midst was Lilias, entirely muffled and pinioned by a large plaid drawn closely round her, and held upon the front of the saddle of a large tall horse, ridden by a slender, light-limbed, wiry groom, whom Malcolm knew as Christopher Hall, a retainer of the Duke of Albany; and beside him rode her captor, Sir Walter Stewart, a man little above twenty, but with a bronzed, hardened, reckless expression that made him look much older, and of huge height and giant build.
'The Earl of Somerset, rather hastily answered Sir James; and then at once Lilias exclaimed, 'Ah, Uncle, is not the King, too, in his charge? And then questions crowded on. 'What like is the King? How brooks he his durance? What freedom hath he? What hope is there of his return? Can he brook to hear of his people's wretchedness?
The young lambs and calves at home needed Elsie's care, and she could seldom come now; and Lilias' burden grew heavier every day. Two rainy Saturdays in succession had presented Archie's coming home; and time seemed to move on leaden wings. "You have need of patience, Lily," said her aunt one night, as the child seated herself on a low stool and laid her head down on the side of the bed.
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