At the dead of night Caspar and Tom, with four picked men from the guard, came to lead her away.  Worn out by that time, and with nothing to sustain her from within, she fancied they were going to kill her, and giving way utterly, cried and shrieked aloud.  Obdurate however, as gentle, they gave no ear to her petitions, but bore her through the western gate, and so to the brick gate in the rampart, placed her in a carriage behind six horses, and set out with her for Caerleon, where her mother lived in obscurity.  At her door they set her down, and leaving the carriage at Usk, returned to Raglan one by one in the night, mounted on the horses.  By the warders who admitted them they were supposed to be returned from distinct missions on the king’s business.

Many were the speculations in the castle as to the fate of mistress Amanda Serafina Fuller, but the common belief continued to be that she had been carried off by Satan, body and soul.

End of Vol.  II.