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"I cannot describe the effect this had upon me I did not love Genevra then I had outlived that affection, but I felt reed her so, and asked how I could make amends
"'You cannot,' the old man said, 'except in one way, and that she does not desire I did not coain It was an unequal match which never should have been; but if you believe her innocent, she will be satisfied She wanted you to know it, I wanted you to know it, and so I crossed the sea to find you'
"I sent a letter by hi her she stood acquitted in my mind of all I had suspected her, and asked her pardon for the great wrong I had done her The next I heard of her was in the colulish newspaper, which told htly turned around a paragraph, which said that 'a forger, Thoo and was supposed to be dead, had recently reappeared in England, where he was recognized, but not arrested, for the illness proved fatal' He was attended, the paper said, by his daughter, 'a beautiful young girl whosethe officers of justice fro able to withstand her pleadings that her father rateful for this tribute, to Genevra, and I felt that it was deserved; turning again to the notice of her death, which must have occurred within a short time of her father's, and was probably induced by past troubles and recent anxiety for hied twenty-two' There could be no mistake, and with a tear to the memory of the dead who that now there was no clew to the secret I was as anxious to preserve as was my mother
"And so the years wore on till Ifrom you that yours was not the first love which had stirred my heart, nor yours the first head which had slept upon reat fear of losing you if you knew all And then an error concealed so long is hard to be confessed I took you across the sea to Brighton, where I first rave which made assurance doubly sure It was that one in the far corner of St Mary's where I went so often and where once you ca upon the very mound whose headstone bore Genevra's name I drew my breath quickly as if the dead were thus dishonored, but I knew you meant no harm, and as soon as possible I hurried you away It was natural that I shouldher last days, but lest it should all come out kept me back, so that I only questioned the old sexton who once was at work nearby Calling his attention to the nairl