He felt sure that gossip
would confirm him. But to make sure that Harlan did not follow her and
find her and discredit gossip he turned back down the corridor purposing
to keep that belligerent young man under watch and ward for a time.
CHAPTER XXVI
THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAID
The Duke found his grandson in an anteroom where the half dozen excited,
wondering men had conveyed him.
The old man and the young man stood for a few moments and gazed at each
other. Harlan was breathless, disheveled, his knuckles were bleeding.
"Where is she?"
The Duke came close to him. "She went away. Now keep your mouth closed.
You talk about disgracing a girl," he muttered in his grandson's ear;
"if you haven't disgraced her and yourself and all of us here to-day it
isn't because you haven't done your best! God only knows why I didn't
leave you in the woods where you belong!"
"I'm going out to find her," insisted his grandson. "This is my own
business from now on."
"You try to leave this room in the shape you're in and I'll have you
committed to the insane asylum across the river.
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