CHAPTER XIV.

WILL HE BETRAY HIMSELF? St. Udo Brand was walking with Margaret over the rustling leaves of the Norman oaks, and beguiling the time by recounting his adventures in the American war. How minutely he described his small part in the great wild drama of carnage! How feelingly he touched on the sorrows of war; how enthusiastically he extolled the valor of his Vermont boys! The whole tissue of events reproduced with such marvelous accuracy, that Margaret was dumb with secret wonder. How could one living being rehearse so…