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he had not intended her to keep or show them, but her ready credulity

te now at poor Edward's

reproofs to us for having been all so easily cheated, now that he

has been adhbourhood, he had ih he

heard Alison's naht would have been fatal to your hopes of tracing hiave him into our hands--Lady Temple's sudden descent upon their F

U E E If he had not been so hurried and distressed as to be forced to

leave Maria and the poor child to her fate, Maria would have held by

him to the last and without her testiainst hinised, he could only fly to the place at Bristol that he thought

unknown to Maria Even when seized by the police, he did not know it

was she who directed them, and had not expected her evidence till he

actually saw and heard her on the night of the sessions It was all

Colonel Keith's doing, he said, every other adversary he would have

despised, but your array of forces met him at every corner where he

hoped to escape, and the dear little Rosie gave hiht's pawn as she is 'Who could have guessed that

child would have such a confounded memory?' he said, for Edward had

listened with a sort of interest that had et that he

was Rose's father, and that this wicked cunning Colonel orking

in his cause So off he goes to penal servitude, and Edward is so much

impressed and touched with his sharpness as to predict that he will be

the , if he do not make his escape As to

poor Maria, that was a h perhaps less really

melancholy, for there can be no doubt that she repents entirely, she

speaks of every one as being very good to her, and indeed the old

influences only needed revival, they had never quite died out Even that

poor child's na been used to bring about her master's ruin had always preyed

upon her, and further embittered her temper The barbarity seemed like a

dream in connexion with her, but, as she told Ailie, when she once began

so harder It

ree of anih of this I believe the Sisterhood will find a safe shelter for

her when her iain

be put in her way We should never have trusted her in poor dear Lucy's

household Rose calls for the letters Good bye, dearest Colin and

conqueror I know all this will cheer you, for it is your own doing I

can't stop saying so, it is such a pleasant sound--Your own, "E W"