“Well, I heard his woice too; but I didn’t know it agin.”
“You heard it only in a moment of terror, and when its very sound was unnatural. It is not strange that you should not have recognized it again.”
“Well, I’m sure! Where’s he going?”
“I don’t know, nurse. Probably where we are going. But I do not wish him to recognize me, lest he should like me to talk; and I cannot talk of my affairs. I say this to caution you. Be on you guard.”
“Yes, honey, I’ll be on my guard. And you may keep yourself dark during the night; but I don’t see how you gwine to manage when it is daylight.”
“I must keep my veil down,” said Drusilla.
“Well, honey, I hope you will succeed.”
CHAPTER XLIV.
HOW SHE SPED.
The night drave on * * *
The wind blew as ’twad blaun its last,