She would have
hesitated before deciding to leave England, and that hesitation might
have proved fatal to the captain's scheme.
As it was, with the plain proofs in her possession, with the gown
discovered in Magdalen's wardrobe, with the piece cut out of it in her
own pocketbook, and with the knowledge, obtained from Mrs. Wragge, of
the very house in which the disguise had been put on, Mrs. Lecount had
now at her command the means of warning Noel Vanstone as she had never
been able to warn him yet, or, in other words, the means of guarding
against any dangerous tendencies toward reconciliation with the Bygraves
which might otherwise have entered his mind during her absence at
Zurich. The only difficulty which now perplexed her was the difficulty
of deciding whether she should communicate with her master personally or
by writing, before her departure from England.
She looked again at the doctor's letter. The word "instantly," in the
sentence which summoned her to her dying brother, was twice underlined.
Admiral Bartram's house was at some distance from the railway; the time
consumed in driving to St. Crux, and driving back again, might be time
fatally lost on the journey to Zurich.
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