A Strange Story, Complete

entered them by the stairs and the wicket-gate of the private entrance; that way was the shortest. So again I p

was charged, and a minute or two afterwards returned and conducted me to the

-not seriously ill,

in which Dr. Lloyd had died. Impossible to mistake. The furniture indeed was changed, there was no bed in the chamber; but the shape of the room, the position of the high casement, which was now wide open, and through which the moonlight streamed more s

there. So I remained leaning against the chi

, and Mrs. Ashleigh then detected, with a mother's eye, some change in Lilian which alarmed her. She seemed listless and dejected, and was very pale; but she denied that she felt unwell. On regaining the house she had sat down in the room in which we then were,-"which," said Mrs. Ashleigh, "as it is not required for a sleeping-room, my daughter, who is fond of reading, wished to fit up as her

here. "Has Miss Ashleigh bee

quietly to sleep, my mind was relieved. I thought it only a passing effect of excitement, in a change of abode; o

at this time of year is trying

r since in a state of great agitation, weeping violently, and answering none of my

Take comfort; in all you tell me I s