"From here," answered the baronet, decidedly. "You shall not leave
here until you find your friends. And you shall not wear this odious
disguise an hour longer. Go back to your chamber and wait."

"What an egregious muff he is!" she said to herself, contemptuously.
"There is no cleverness in fooling such an imbecile as that. I am
going on velvet so far; I only hope my lady may be as easily dealt with
as my lady's only son."

My lady's only son went straight to a door down the corridor, quite at
the other extremity, and opened it.

It was a lady's dressing-room evidently. Laid out, all ready for wear,
was a lady's morning toilet complete, and without more ado Sir Everard
confiscated the whole concern. At the white cashmere robe alone he
caviled.

"This is too gay; I must find a more sober garment. All the
maid-servants in the house would recognize this immediately."

He went to one of the closets, searched there, and presently reappeared
with a black silk dress. Rolling all up in a heap, he started at once
with his prize, laughing inwardly at the figure he cut.

"If Lady Louise saw me now, or my lady mother, either, for that matter!
What will Mildred and her maid say, I wonder, when they find burglars
have been at work, and her matutinal toilet stolen?"

He bore the bundle straight to the chamber of his pretty runaway, and