“I am willing; but first allow me to speak to George, who otherwise might be surprised at our long absence.”
Henry walked rapidly to the bed chamber of Flora, and he said to George,—
“Have you any objection to being left alone here for about half an hour, George, while we make an examination of the garden?”
“Let me have some weapon and I care not. Remain here while I fetch a sword from my own room.”
Henry did so, and when George returned with a sword, which he always kept in his bed-room, he said,—
“Now go, Henry. I prefer a weapon of this description to pistols much. Do not be longer gone than necessary.”
“I will not, George, be assured.”
George was then left alone, and Henry returned to the balcony, where Mr. Marchdale was waiting for him. It was a quicker mode of descending to th
