text:  And where was her father--mother? Why had the law been allowed by this eccentric lover to violate the humble sanctuary of home at the desolate Llaneol? What was become of the wicker chair? Was the hated Lewis to be maintained in his usurpation of the chair of Bevan's _ancestral_ post of steward (for his father had been steward to the father of the squire deceased?) Above all was Dame Bevan to see that home of her heart's hope the permanent home of the harsh supplanter of her husband? Passing over the affecting scene of poor Winifred's fainting which drew round her father and mother and others from below proceed we to answer those queries and conclude our tale