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Mary wept in silence, and heeded not the words of the duenna

"Perhaps, my child," the old woman resumed, "this very day the doubt which

has caused you sofor five days ainst all hope I reht for weeks, and found alive when there seemed al of it thisheard my parents relate it It happened to a banker,

Liefarded the duenna with an air of doubt

"They found hione on a journey

without giving notice to any one?"

"No; he was discovered in the cellar of a house in the little by-street of

Sureau Robbers had laid in wait for hiht, and

cast him bound into a subterranean cave, in order to obtain a heavy

ransoents of the bailiff discovered him and liberated him

unharmed If God has so decreed, why nor Geronimo? You are silent, Mary You cannot deny that a similar

train of circumstances may have been the cause of his disappearance Is it

not so? but you yield to despair, and even in the act of begging

consolation frohty God, you reject obstinately every motive of

consolation"