She has never heard the ridiculous story of the haunted room,
and, as she lives here in solitude, I would not like her to hear of
it."
"Oh, I will say nothing to disquiet Miss Day; but it was no dream.
It was real, if there is any reality in this world."
There was no more said. They continued to look for the ring, but in
vain. Dorcas Knight, however, assured her guest that it should be
found and returned, and that breakfast waited. Whereupon Capitola
went down to the parlor, where she found Clara awaiting her presence
to give her a kindly greeting.
"Mr. Le Noir never gets up until very late, and so we do not wait
for him," said Dorcas Knight, as she took her seat at the head of
the table and signed to the young girls to gather around it.
After breakfast Capitola, promising to come again soon, and inviting
Clara to return her visit, took leave of her entertainers and set
out for home.
"Thank heaven! I have got her off in time and safety!" muttered
Dorcas Knight, in triumph.
CHAPTER VII.
CAP'S RETURN.
Must I give way and room for your rash choler?
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
Go show your slaves how choleric you are!
And make your bondsmen tremble! I'll not blench!
--SHAKESPEARE.
It happened that about sunrise that morning Wool awoke In the
cellar, and remembered that on the night previous his master had
commanded him to sally forth in the storm end seek his young
mistress, and had forbidden him, on pain of broken bones, to return
without bringing her safe.
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