the others come round to the front; but
there's no reason why we shouldn't have lights. We can't be seen from the
castle: the walls here are too thick to be transparent. It's just the
place for a little supper."

A number of others now came forward and entered. The fugitives stood
clinging to one another as before, expecting the worst, and awaiting with
intense anxiety the moment when lights would be introduced.

There was now the flash of sudden flames--some of them were striking
matches. The flames leaped forth, and soon half a dozen torches were
kindled, and then, blazing and smoking, they were held aloft, throwing a
bright light upon the whole interior; while those who held them looked
around without any other purpose, just then, than to find some convenient
place where they might place them, so as to save themselves the trouble of
holding them.

In that one instant the whole scene stood revealed.

There stood Brooke, with Talbot clinging to him; there Harry, with his
arms round Katie; and there Ashby, supporting Dolores. And as Ashby and
Harry stared at these noisy new-comers, they saw the familiar face of no
less a person than "His Majesty."

At this sight they were filled with amazement and consternation. Yet their
amazement, great though it may have been, was not greater than that of
"His Majesty." For an instant he stood like one transfixed, and then
exclaimed, in that peculiar English which he spoke,

"Howly Moses! but this bates the worruld!" and then stood staring at each
of them.

At this exclamation Katie started. She recognized the voice at once; and,
strange to say, all her terror fled. From that man she felt as if there
was nothing to fear. She looked up, and showed her sweet face all smiles,
with all its anxiety and all its terror vanished. Dolores also heard the
English words, and looked up in surprise, recognizing at the first glance
that familiar face. Harry and Ashby made the same discovery.

But there were other discoveries to be made. Their eyes, as the lights
shone around, took in the whole scene; and it was with the deepest dismay
and confusion that, on looking around, each one caught sight of his, or
her, old lover; and, what was more, the feeling of each one was, that the
other had come in pursuit, to claim that vow which each was breaking.

Harry saw Talbot, and felt sure that she had come after him to demand a
new explanation, and to reproach him for this new perfidy. She had
suf