hear anything, you would not mind telegraphing to me
direct? I think you have my address."

And then, bursting into bitter sobs, she suddenly
got up and ran out of the room.

So she did know about Major Guthrie's will. In
what other way could he, the man to whom she was
speaking, know her address? Mr. Allen also told himself,
with some surprise, that he had been mistaken -- that
Mrs. Otway, after all, was not the quiet, passionless
woman he had supposed her to be.

When she reached the Trellis House late that Sunday
afternoon, Mrs. Otway was met at the door by
Rose, and the girl, with face full of mingled awe and
pain, told her that the blow on the Deanery had fallen.
Edith Haworth had received the news that Sir Hugh
Severn was dead -- killed at the head of his men in a
great cavalry charge.

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