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FROM restless sleep and troubled dreams Lyle Orcheton woke to bright sunshine and to--memory.
At first she could hardly realise that the events of the past night were absolute facts. They seemed too fantastic and unreal. But as she lay there, watching Molly's movements about the room, the whole strange story came back again; the discovery of the letter, the sealed packet, the turret room and its occupant, and the peril to Nora. She sprang up hastily and made her toilet; then, going downstairs, ordered her horse to be brought round within an hour.