Lecount--until she had achieved t his double object, with the needful
precaution of keeping her own identity carefully in the dark--not a step
could she advance toward the accomplishment of the purpose which had
brought her to London.
One after another the minutes of the night passed away; one after
another the thronging thoughts followed each other over her mind--and
still she reached no conclusion; still she faltered and doubted, with a
hesitation new to her in her experience of herself. At last she crossed
the room impatiently to seek the trivial relief of unlocking her trunk
and taking from it the few things that she wanted for the night. Captain
Wragge's suspicions had not misled him. There, hidden between two
dresses, were the articles of costume which he had missed from her box
at Birmingham. She turned them over one by one, to satisfy herself that
nothing she wanted had been forgotten, and returned once more to her
post of observation by the window.
The house opposite was dark down to the parlor. There the blind,
previously raised, was now drawn over the window: the light burning
behind it showed her for the first time that the room was inhabited.
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