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At last Mr Grey was announced, and he had mercy upon Rachel; he ca her remarkable, and told her

the cause of his delay had been the necessity of co Mauleverer

upon an accusation by a relation of Colonel Keith, of very extensive

frauds upon Miss Williams's brother Rachel's illness and the caution

of the Willia fully aware of the

complication of their affairs with her own, and she became paler and

paler, as she listened to the partial explanation, though she was hardly

able as yet to understand it

"The woman?" she asked

"Sentenced to a year's imprisonment with hard labour, and let me tell

you, Rachel, you had a most narrow escape there! If that army doctor had

not come in time to see the child alive, they could not have chosen

but have an inquest, and no ht have been the

decision about your ho forward to

a worse business than this at the next assizes"