Chapter 38: Ghost-Haunted

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌⁠No feverish sleeper traveling in a strange dream ever looked out more wonderingly upon a world that seemed unreal than Robert Audley, as he stared absently at the flat swamps and dismal poplars between Villebrumeuse and Brussels. Could it be that he was returning to his uncle's house without the woman who had reigned in it for nearly two years as queen and mistress? He felt as if he had carried of