Chapter 22 MARY'S EFFORTS TO PROVE AN ALIBI.

"There was a listening fear in her regard,

As if calamity had but begun;

As if the vanward clouds of evil days

Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear

Was, with its stored thunder, labouring up."

Keats' "Hyperion."

No sooner was Mary alone than she fastened the door, and put the shutters up against the window, which had all th