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"'What has co?' he said 'What has become of the

faithful love of so ed me the

shelter of your roof and the food that I have eaten? I can scarcely

believe it, and yet I fear it is true Enclosed I leave you a cheque

which will pay for anything I may have cost you; further than that I

can only thank you for your, I fear, unwilling hospitality, and pray

that some day we may meet, when this mysterious cloud, which I have

deplored so much, may have cleared away

"'When you read this, Ellen and I will have been married at St

Jorwerth's Church at Caer Madoc, and shall, I hope, have sailed for

Australia, where you know I have long wished to go' "'Betto,' I said, 'is she lying dead and still upstairs?' "'Yes, h in her coffin!

Why, sir, why?' "'Because I wonder she does not co her fro to end, Betto! These letters prove to

me that my brother--my beloved, innocent brother--was deeply in love

with her cousin, Ellen Vaughan, and she, in the tenderness of her

heart, helped to bring about their union, and was thethe letters which they wrote to each other They were