Saved By A Saint by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd
Published: 2013-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

The Marquis had climbed into bed.

Then he decided that before he went to sleep he would make a list of the items he had promised the farmers during the day.

He was afraid that when the morning came he would have forgotten which farm required what and he therefore, in his strong upright writing, put it down on a pad that always stood beside his bed.

He was just checking that what he had promised the first farm was correct when he glanced up.

He was then startled into immobility.

A woman in white was standing in a dark part of the room where the light from the candles did not reach.

It swept through his mind that this must be the White Lady, the ghost of the Countess Sylvia.

He thought he must be dreaming, but she was definitely there, silhouetted against the panelling.

She stood still until, with an astonished note in his voice, he exclaimed,

“Christina!”

She then moved quickly towards him with her finger to her lips.

As she reached the bed she said in a whisper that he could hardly hear,

“Come – quickly! Come – with me! It is – very important!”

She did not wait for the Marquis to answer, but moved back the way she had come.

She stepped through the panelled door that was open beside the fireplace.

The Marquis had learnt to be swift and not to prevaricate when anything out of the ordinary occurred.

He leapt out of bed and picked up his robe, which Yates had left on a chair and he had slipped into it by the time he reached the open panel.

Christina was inside and now she was holding a candle in her hands.

She did not speak to him, but merely started to move along the secret passage.

The Marquis had played in these passages as a child, but he had almost forgotten his way.

Now he was recalling the thrill it had given him when he had first been shown them by his father.

He wondered what had upset Christina and what was happening.

Then, as she stopped and put the candle down on the floor, he heard a voice.

He was aware that it came from the room where h his cousin Terence was sleeping.

Then he heard him say,

“Good evening! My valet tells me that you are prepared to do something for me which I think will amuse his Lordship.”

“Yes, sir,” a man replied.

Now Christina moved a tiny shutter in the wall.

The Marquis remembered that he would be able to see through it into the bedroom.

He could only look through it with one eye, but it was enough for him to see that his cousin Terence was sitting on the bed.

Standing in front of him was the man he had seen at the door of his room whom he knew was his valet.

There was also another man wearing the white coat and apron of a chef.

The Marquis guessed, although he did not think that he had seen the man before, that he was an assistant to the chef he had brought with him from London.

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