THE SIGNS OF THE END.THE servant, appearing the next morning in Anne’s room with the breakfast tray, closed the door with an air of mystery, and announced that strange things were going on in the house.
“Did you hear nothing last night, ma’am,” she asked, “down stairs in the passage?”
“I thought I heard some voices whispering outside my room,” Anne replied. “Has any thing happened?”
Extricated from the confusion in which she involved it, the girl’s narrative amounted in substance to this. She had been startled by the sudden appearance of her mistress in the passage, staring about her wildly, like a woman who had gone out of her senses. Almost at the same moment “the master” had flung open the drawing-room door. He had caught Mrs. Dethridge by the arm, had dragged her into the room, and
