Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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DANGER IN THE DARK.
abundance of which I shall not fail to put on. I will
tell him that before taking any other step, I want to
make a trial of my faith, and of my capacity to
endure the cloistered life, by passing a few days in
the convent; and that during that time I must be
permitted to wear the black vail, and have access to
the nuns who have taken the monastic vows. He
may hesitate; but when he sees that to humor me is
the only chance of getting at the money, which I '11
remember to hint on, depend upon it he'll quickly
bite at the baited hook."
" Would you play such a game of deception as
that 'I"
HIt's the only way of getting ahead of these Jesnits;
we must beat them at their own game. I can
think of no other plan that would likely work at all ;
for Isadora dare not again venture about the convent;
they would most certainly take her life."
" Yes - no question of that; but you they will
hardly suspect."
Enola had but Iittle thought, however, that when
it should come to the test, :Mary Glidewell would
really attempt to carry out the project. Feeling that
it could hardly be right under any circumstances to
use deception, Miss Glenn made no effort to encourage
the undertaking.
Mary's intrepidity was equal to her ambition; in
the course of a few days she made the necessary
preparation. Clad in weeds of mourning, she went
to Dupin, and proceeded in all respects as she had