Chapter 28 ADA LEICESTER AND JACOB STRONG.

We drove him to that fearful gulf,

In the sharp pangs of his despair,

As angry hunters chase a wolf

From open field and hidden lair.

The servant who sat waiting in the vestibule was startled by the hard, tearless misery of Ada's face, as she entered her own dwelling that night. He looked at her earnestly, and seemed about to speak, but