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The hand tightened on Rossi's arrave of a living man, I have heard what has

happened since I was banished from the world The treacherous letter

which called me back to Italy and decoyed me into the hands of the

police was the work of a man who now holds my estates as the payment for

his treachery"

"The Baron?"

Rossi had stopped the phonograph

"Can you bear it?" he said

The pale young face flushed with resolution

"Go on," she said

When the voice froain it was more tremulous and

husky than before

"After he had betrayed the father, what ie of the child, God alone, who reads all

hearts, can say He went to England to look for her, found her in the

streets to which she had been abandoned by the faithlessness of the

guardians to who the the unknown body of an unfortunate being in the

name of my beloved child"