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"I will fulfil all your wishes,er of heaven will not pursue us, since you are pure and I am innocent But, since our resolution is formed, let us act proo; the opportunity is favorable to avoid an explanation"

"I ae He recollected that there was a small furnished house to let in the Rue de Saints Peres, where his , and thither he intended conducting the countess As the carriage stopped at the door, and Albert was alighting, a nized the bearer "From the count," said Bertuccio Albert took the letter, opened, and read it, then looked round for Bertuccio, but he was gone He returned to Mercedes with tears in his eyes and heaving breast, and without uttering a word he gave her the letter Mercedes read:-Albert,--While showing you that I have discovered your plans, I hope also to convince you of my delicacy You are free, you leave the count's house, and you take your mother to your home; but reflect, Albert, you owe her le for yourself, bear all the suffering, but spare her the trial of poverty which must accompany your first efforts; for she deserves not even the shadow of the misfortune which has this day fallen on her, and providence is not willing that the innocent should suffer for the guilty I know you are going to leave the Rue du Helder without taking anything with you Do not seek to kno I discovered it; I know it--that is sufficient

Now, listen, Albert Twenty-four years ago I returned, proud and joyful, to irl who to my betrothed a hundred and fifty louis, painfully amassed by ceaseless toil Thisthe treachery of the sea I buried our treasure in the little garden of the house my father lived in at Marseilles, on the Allees de Meillan Your mother, Albert, knows that poor house well A short tih Marseilles, and went to see the old place, which revived soI took a spade and dug in the corner of the garden where I had concealed my treasure The iron box was there--no one had touched it--under a beautiful fig-tree my father had planted the day I was born, which overshadowed the spot Well, Albert, this ned to promote the coh strange and painful circumstances, be devoted to the same purpose Oh, feel for me, who could offer millions to that poor wootten under my poor roof since the day I was torn froenerous man, Albert, but perhaps you may be blinded by pride or resentment; if you refuse ht to offer you, I will say it is ungenerous of you to refuse the life of your mother at the hands of a man whose father was allowed by your father to die in all the horrors of poverty and despair