title: Exile (The Grace Mysteries)
author: Lady Grace Cavendish
description: Gr. 4-7. Running down the alphabet, <i>Exile</i> is the fifth title in the series that began with <i>Assassin </i>(2004), written by Patricia Finney, though the purported author of all the volumes is Lady Grace Cavendish, protege of Queen Elizabeth I. In this tale, a jewel is stolen from an exiled noble from Sharakand. When a laundry maid is falsely accused of the crime, Grace tries to discover the thief's identity. Less convincing than the portrayals of the English characters are the colorful but cardboard figures of the visitors from Sharakand. Still, this is an enjoyable mystery, which moves swiftly to a satisfying conclusion. <i>Carolyn Phelan</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  ![cover](resources/_cover_.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * * *
  
  # The Heart's Highway
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  I
  
  
  II
  
  
  III
  
  
  IV
  
  
  V
  
  
  VI
  
  
  VII
  
  
  VIII
  
  
  IX
  
  
  X
  
  
  XI
  
  
  XII
  
  
  XIII
  
  
  XIV
  
  
  XV
  
  
  XVI
  
  
  XVII
  
  
  XVIII
  
  
  XIX
  
  
  XX
  
  
  XXI
  
  
  XXII
  
  
  XXIII
  
  
  
  
  
  * * *
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ###
  
  
  I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  In 1682, when I was thirty years of age and Mistress Mary Cavendish
  
  
  just turned of eighteen, she and I together one Sabbath morning in the
  
  
  month of April were riding to meeting in Jamestown. We were all alone
  
  
  except for the troop of black slaves straggling in the rear, blurring
  
  
  the road curiously with their black faces. It seldom happened that we
  
  
  rode in such wise, for Mistress Catherine Cavendish, the elder sister
  
  
  of Mistress Mary, and Madam Cavendish, her grandmother, usually rode
  
  
  with us?Madam Judith Cavendish, though more than seventy, sitting a
  
  
  horse as well as her granddaughters, and looking, when viewed from the
  
  
  back, a