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That direction, I was sure, she took for the purpose of misleading us at the Hall, and I felt confident she would, when once out of sight, head her mare straight for Overhaddon. Within an hour Dorothy was home again, and very ill-tempered. The next day she rode out in the morning.
The sun had sunk in the west, and his faint parting glory was but dimly to be seen upon a few small clouds that floated above Overhaddon Hill. The moon was past its half; and the stars, still yellow and pale from the lingering glare of day, waited eagerly to give their twinkling help in lighting the night.
"For God's sake, Dorothy, do not tell your father of your meetings at Overhaddon. He would kill you. Have you lived in the same house with him all these years and do you not better know his character than to think that you may go to him with the tale you have just told me, and that he will forgive you?
Thus you see our beautiful pitcher went to the well and was broken. The day after Dorothy's first meeting with Manners at Overhaddon she was restless and nervous, and about the hour of three in the afternoon she mounted Dolcy and rode toward Bakewell.
We were watching the sun as it sank in splendor beneath Overhaddon Hill. I should like first to tell you a few words only a few, I pray you concerning Madge and myself. I will. I have just said that Madge and I were watching the sun at the west window, and I told you but the truth, for Madge had learned to see with my eyes.
It probably was well that she did so, for I was about to add, "To act womanly often means to get yourself into mischief and your friends into as much trouble as possible." Had I finished my remark, she would not have thanked me. "Well," said the girl, beginning her laggard narrative, "after we saw saw him at Overhaddon, you know, I went to the village on each of three days "
I could join them before they reached Rutland, and my absence during the earlier portion of the march would not be remarked, or if noticed it could easily be explained. This plan was agreed upon, and after the guards had passed out at Dove-cote Gate and were well down toward Rowsley, I rode out from the Hall, and waited for Dorothy at an appointed spot near Overhaddon.
And she drew from her bosom a golden heart studded with diamonds and pierced by a white silver arrow. "I, of course, accepted it, then we said 'good-by, and I put Dolcy to a gallop that she might speedily take me out of temptation." "Have you ridden to Overhaddon for the purpose of seeing Manners many times since he gave you the heart?" I queried.
Before I had learned of the new trysting-place John had ridden thither several evenings to meet Dorothy, but had found only Jennie bearing her mistress's excuses. I supposed his journeyings had been to Overhaddon; but I did not press his confidence, nor did he give it.
"The gentleman with the cigarro," she responded, laughing nervously. "No," I answered, "I know nothing of him." The subject was dropped. At another time she said, "He was in the village Overhaddon yesterday." Then I knew who "him" was. "How do you know?" I asked. "Jennie Faxton, the farrier's daughter, told me. She often comes to the Hall to serve me.
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