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"Well," said he, "if you had committed a murder, and I had told you

your crihast"

"It is a large sum--don't you think there is a mistake?"

"No --it ures,--twenty thousand"

I again felt rather like an individual of but average gastrono down to feast alone at a table spread with provisions

for a hundred Mr Rivers rose now and put his cloak on

"If it were not such a very wild night," he said, "I would send

Hannah down to keep you company: you look too desperately miserable

to be left alone But Hannah, poor wos are not quite so long: so I ht"

He was lifting the latch: a sudden thought occurred to me "Stop

one minute!" I cried

"Well?"

"It puzzles s wrote to you aboutin such an out-of-the-