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'"He is ill; he is not likely to live through the night"

'At this announce lady fell to the floor in a swoon, apparently overcome by the news The landlord ran in and lifted her up Well, do what they would they could not for a long tian to be much alarmed "Who is she?" the innkeeper said to the other wo in her tone The elderly and young wons of life, and it struck him (he was plainly of an inquisitive turn), that in her half-bewildered state he et some information from her He stooped over her, put his mouth to her ear, and said sharply, "What's your na is difficult, even when she's half dead; but I did it," says the gatekeeper When he asked her her name, she said immediately-'"Cytherea"--and stopped suddenly' 'My own naht at the tiht be equally with Jane a naht not trace her; but I think it was truth unconsciously uttered, for she added directly afterwards: "O, what have I said!"

and was quite overcoht Her vexation that the woenuineness of her other nareater than that the innkeeper did, and it is evident that to blind the woman was her main object He also learnt fros of the same kind had been held before, and that the falseness of the soi-disant Miss Jane Taylor's name had never been suspected by this dependent or confederate till then

'She recovered, rested there for an hour, and first sending off her co), she left the house, offering the landlord all theabout the circu to his own account I said to hiain, "Did you find any more particulars afterwards?" "Not a syllable," he said O, he should never hear any more of that! too many years had passed since it happened "At any rate, you found out her surname?" I said

"Well, well, that's my secret," he went on "Perhaps I should never have been in this part of the world if it hadn't been for that I failed as a publican, you know" I iiven him and his debts paid off as a bribe to silence; but I can't say "Ah, yes!" he said, with a long breath "I have never heard that naht, and then there instantly rose tofit" He then stopped talking and fell asleep