The Gaverocks (Volume 3); A Tale of the Cornish Coast

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... 'He tells me the men there need much supervision.' Paul left Marsland after breakfast, -without saying whither he was going, consequently he was not at home when the discovery was made that Loveday had fled. Her packed box, the bed not slept in, showed that she had gone. Juliot sent after her brother, but Paul was not to be found, and did not return till noon. Then, only, was he made aware of Loveday's disappearance. The morning had been lost in looking for him. Juliot was incapable of giving directions for a search. Paul was filled with consternation and self-reproach. 'Oh, poor soul, poor soul!' he exclaimed, 'I have driven her from her newly discovered retreat. Juliot, she must be found and brought back; it is not she, it is I who must go. It is my fault that this has come about. I will go to Stanbury, and let Eock live here for a while. She must not be driven away. God be merciful to her! She is in no fit condition of mind or body for a journey.' 'Whither has she gone?' asked Juliot. 'I doubt not, towards Exeter, ' answered Paul. 'She let fall, as I was driving her here, something about a cousin whom she had purposed visiting when arrested on her journeyby my advertisement. She has certainly started on her way thither. I shall reproach myself for this all my days. The weather is changing. We shall have a storm this afternoon, and she may be exposed to it!' He ordered the horse to be put iu the trap at once. There was room in this conveyance for two only. 'Juliot, ' said Paul, ' I shall take Willy Penrose with me, and when we find her I shall alight and let Willy drive her home, and I will come after afoot.' Paul spent the whole afternoon in the storm, driving from place to place making inquiries, always without result. The district was thinlypopulated, a...