CHAPTER SEVENVanda had been so shocked by what Baker had said that she was almost paralysed by fear.
She was now wondering frantically just how she could kill herself.
Suddenly a man rode into the clearing on horseback.
Seeing that he was a highwayman she relapsed into her distraught thoughts.
But, when the Earl began to speak, she stiffened, looked up and thought that she must be dreaming.
She knew his voice, she could never forget it.
But she could not believe that it had come from a man whose face was covered with a black mask.
The Earl went on speaking and she knew that it really was him.
She wanted to jump to her feet, to run to him and beg him to save her.
Every nerve in her body seemed to spring towards him.
Then her brain told her that, if she did anything quite so foolis
