Edaolu oe Oludluv.
The motto of the Vaughns was as familiar to her as her own name, and
hastily writing upon a bit of paper the words: “Dieu le roy et le foy du Vaughn,”
she placed the letters of the alphabet beneath the letters of those words, and
by assuming the upper letter as the name of the lower one, found herself possessed
of a new alphabet, by whose aid she translated the three words of cipher
into the phrase: “Father of Heralds.”
Here, however, was a fresh enigma; and Neria, utterly exhausted in body and
mind, put it aside for the consideration of a calmer moment, and locking the
journal, the picture, and letter in her desk, threw herself upon the bed with eyes
already closed, just as the earliest bird uttered his warning note of the coming
morn.
