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"I reached the place whither I had been sent, gave the letter to Don

Fernando's brother, and was kindly received but not proainst ht days in some

place where the duke his father was not likely to see me, as his brother

wrote that the e; all of which

was a scheme of the treacherous Don Fernando, for his brother had no want

of money to enable him to despatch me at once

"The co it,

as it seemed to me impossible to endure life for soher in the sorrowful mood I have

described to you; nevertheless as a dutiful servant I obeyed, though I

felt it would be at the cost ofBut four days later there

caave me, and which by

the address I perceived to be fro was hers I

opened it with fear and trepidation, persuaded that it

serious that had impelled her to write to me when at a distance, as she

seldo it I asked thehe had been upon the road; he