Her
eyes brightened, and her color rose as she looked at it.
"There he is!" she said to herself, in a low, angry whisper. "There he
lives on our money, in the house that his father's warning has closed
against me!" She dropped the blind which she had raised to look out,
returned to her trunk, and took from it the gray wig which was part of
her dramatic costume in the character of the North-country lady. The wig
had been crumpled in packing; she put it on and went to the toilet-table
to comb it out. "His father has warned him against Magdalen Vanstone,"
she said, repeating the passage in Mrs. Lecount's letter, and laughing
bitterly, as she looked at herself in the glass. "I wonder whether his
father has warned him against Miss Garth? To-morrow is sooner than I
bargained for. No matter: to-morrow shall show."
CHAPTER II.
THE early morning, when Magdalen rose and looked out, was cloudy and
overcast. But as time advanced to the breakfast hour the threatening of
rain passed away; and she was free to provide, without hinderance
from the weather, for the first necessity of the day--the necessity of
securing the absence of her traveling companion from the house.
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