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'But was you not afraid of being discovered?' said Emily

'I was not,' replied Du Pont; 'for I knew, that, if Montoni had been

acquainted with the secret of this passage, he would not have confined

me in the apartment, to which it led I knew also, fronorant of it The party, for soth, were soheard Montoni order his

servants to search it, I returned to my prison, which was very distant

froe' 'I remember perfectly to have heard of

the conversation youMontoni's people, and I will oeak enough to partake of

it'

Monsieur Du Pont and Emily thus continued to converse of Montoni, and

then of France, and of the plan of their voyage; when Emily told hiuedoc, where she

had been formerly treated with much kindness, and from thence to write

to her relation Monsieur Quesnel, and inforned to wait, till La Vallee should again be her ohither

she hoped her income would soht her to expect, that the estate, of which Montoni had

atteain

congratulated her on her escape from Montoni, who, he had not a doubt,