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He had heard of her return, and gone at once to Wyfern. There learning whither she had betaken herself, he had followed, and tracking what of her footsteps he could discover, had at length found her. Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise. Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other. Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
An' we had found aught upon thee of greater consequence it might have made a question. But this hardly accounts for thy mission. Doubtless thou bearest thy message in thy mind. 'What! thou wilt not let me go to Wyfern, to my own house, master Heywood? said Dorothy in a tone of disappointment, for her heart now at length began to fail her. 'Not until Raglan is ours, answered Richard.
Tell me whither thou goest, and Ha! art thou there? he cried, interrupting himself as he caught sight of Tom in the chimney corner; and pausing, he stood silent for a moment. Wouldst like to hear, thou rascal, he resumed presently, 'that mistress Dorothy Vaughan got safe to Wyfern this morning? 'God be praised! said Tom Fool. 'But thou shalt not hear it.
Also, she had the house to look after, the live stock to see to, her dog to play with and teach, a few sad thoughts and memories to discipline, a call now and then from a neighbour, or a longer visit from some old friend of her mother's to receive, and the few cottagers on all that was left of the estate of Wyfern to care for; so that her time was tolerably filled up, and she felt little need of anything more to occupy at least her hours and days.
On a certain spring morning, then, the snow still lying in the hollows of the hills, Thomas Bayly came to Wyfern to see his old friend Matthew Herbert. He was a courteous little man, with a courtesy librating on a knife-edge of deflection towards obsequiousness on the one hand and condescension on the other, for neither of which, however, was his friend Herbert an object.
'What! is the animal thy property, fair cousin? He is more than I bargained for. 'He is mine, my lord, but I left him chained when I set out from Wyfern this morning. That he got loose I confess I am not astonished, neither that he tracked me hither, for he has the eyes of a gaze-hound, and the nose of a bloodhound; but it amazes me to find him in the castle.
And bethink thee, Dorothy, how that would cut me to the heart. The moon shone full upon his face, and Dorothy saw the end of a great scar that came from under his hat down on to his forehead. 'Then will I answer thee, Richard, she said, with a strange trembling in her voice. I come from Raglan. 'And whither art going, Dorothy? 'To Wyfern. 'On what business?
I will tell thee better if less welcome news that I come from conducting her back to Raglan in safety, and have seen its gates close upon her. Thou shalt have thy horse, sir Rowland, an' thou can wait for him an hour; but for thy ride to Wyfern, that, thou seest, would not avail thee.
'Wherefore should not I go to Wyfern and there abide? Thou canst there watch her whom thou trustest not. 'Who can tell what manner of person might not creep to Wyfern, to whom there might messages be given, or whom thou mightest send, credenced by secret word or sign? 'Whither, then, am I to go? asked Dorothy, with dignity.
It seemed a month since she had been in her own bed at Wyfern, so many new and strange things had crowded into her house, hitherto so still. Every now and then the darkness heaved and rippled with some noise of the night. The stamping of horses, and the ringing of their halter chains, seemed very near her.
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