ABSTRACT
I began now to feel some degree of uneasiness at the absence of Isabella and Lord Kencarth. The time of night, and the impropriety of the event, no less astonished the greater part of the family. The manor-house was searched from the roof to the foundation; several persons were dispatched to explore every avenue of the grounds: others hastened to the parsonage, while I, with a mind equally a stranger to hope as to fear, set out to make inquiries at the neighbouring village.
