And then she suddenly recollected the situation and circumstances and added:
“It’s well I’m strong. John Legg, how have you stood it?”
“As well as man could, Julia, I hope. But here is a young woman come to show us to our rooms, where we can wash our faces before breakfast,” he added, as a housemaid appeared at the door.
The three arose and prepared to follow the girl, who led them up the first flight of stairs to one of the best suites of rooms in the house.
When John Legg and Julia Legg had made their simple and hasty toilet, they went downstairs and into the drawing-room, where they found Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hay, Mr. Will Walling and Dandy Quin awaiting them.
They greeted the party, and then John Legg apologized for the absence of his daughter as best he could.
Judy excused herself for a moment and went out immediately to speak to the housekeeper and order an excellent breakfast sent up to Miss Legg in her room.
Then she returned to her guests and conducted them to the breakfast parlor, where the morning meal was already laid.
After breakfast Mr. and Mrs. Legg took leave, and with old Dandy, who wept at parting with his friends, and with their daughter, closely veiled and silent, left Haymore Hall in a carriage proffered by Ran and drove to Chuxton, where they took the train for London, en route for Medge.
Clay Legg had not been seen since he had fled from before the face of the frenzied Gentleman Geff. He was afterward heard of in Wales, as a hanger-on to his father-in-law, under whose protection his wife and children had lived for some time past.