The Pirate Woman by A E Dingle Chapter 18 Page 3

“Divided to her disaster and — Milo’s triumph!”

Then the maid wrapped herself in a robe, and went out to the camp.

Like a fantom she appeared to Venner, and as swiftly vanished; but in the moment that she bent over him she whispered in his ear that Tomlin was the chosen of Dolores; that he and Pearse were doomed at the hands of their friend.

“I tell thee, watch,” she said. “By noon to-morrow the truth shall be shown to thee.” And in leaving him she placed in his hands the rapier that had been taken from him by Dolores.

To Tomlin next she appeared, and his rapier also she returned; but in his ear was breathed the name of John Pearse. To find Pearse himself was harder; but