“Do you suppose I should tell you a lie?” demanded the Colonel hotly. “If Sybil had come with me, she would, I haven’t the smallest doubt, tell you exactly what I tell you now, and that is Mrs. Staniland and Miss Helsworth,” said Bales, opening the upper door, and Sybil, with a look of constrained fear in her eyes, came down the steps, and stood between the two men.
“Let her speak for herself,” said Campion, with a chill at his heart.
“Ha!” said the Colonel, “Sybil, this is irregular, you know, irregular. You had no business to come here!”
“It’s not my fault, Horace,” said Mrs. Staniland, who had just made her appearance; “she found out that you had gone here, and nothing I could say would prevent her from coming too — so of course I had to accompany her!”
“Well, now she is here,” said
