Lizzie Is Threatened with the Treadmill
Early on the Wednesday morning, two or three hours before the time fixed for Lizzie's visit to Mr. Camperdown, her cousin Frank came to call upon her. She presumed him to be altogether ignorant of all that Major Mackintosh had known, and therefore endeavoured to receive him as though her heart were light.
"Oh, Frank," she said, "you have heard of our terrible misfortune here?"
"I have heard so much," said he gravely, "that I hardly know what to believe and what not to believe."
"I mean about Miss Roanoke's marriage?"
"Oh, yes;--I have been told that it is broken off."
Then Lizzie, with affected eagerness, gave him a description of the whole affair, declaring how horrible, how tragic, the thing had been from its very commencement. "Don't you rem
