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Time--which Lord Leycester had been so recklessly wasting in "riotous living"--passed very quiet indeed in the Thames valley, beneath the white walls of Wyndward Hall. During the months which elapsed since that fearful parting between the two lovers, life had gone on at the cottage just as before, with the one great exception that Jasper Adelstone had become almost a daily visitor, and that Stella was engaged to him. That was all the difference, but what a difference it was! Lord Leycester gone--her tried, her firs…