Chapter 11: The Prisoner of His Word

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌​​​‌​‌​‌⁠Nothing to rouse alarm was discovered at Carlsruhe. Livia’s fair cousin was there with the red-haired gaunt girl of the mountains; and it was frankly stated by Henrietta, that she had accompanied the girl a certain distance along the Strasburg road, for her to see the last of her brother Chillon on his way to England. Livia was not the woman to push inquiries. On that subject, she merely said, as