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"They will not do that," said Major Delavie, eager to reassure her; "I have heard enough of their tricks to know that they keep such gaet a ransom"

"Your are sure of that!"

"Perfectly I met an Italian fellow at Vienna who told ed by the Genoese bankers"

"Ah! I was just thinking that you would be the only person who could be of use--you who know foreign languages and all their ways If you could go abroad, and arrange it for an the Major

"I see what you would say, and I am convinced that the first step towards the discovery would be to put Mr Belamour under restraint, and separate his black froht kno she has been played upon"

"What does your Ladyship suppose then?" asked the Major

"This is what I iine The poor silly maid repents herself and comes back in search of me Would that she had found me, her best friend! But instead of that, she falls in with old Belaer of the perilous masquerade in which he had involved my unlucky boy, a minor, has mewed her up somewhere, till the cry should be over"

"That would be the part of a villain, but scarcely of a madman," said Betty dryly

"My dear cousin Betty, there are lunatics endoith a marvellous shrewdness to co Depend upon it, ht were not solely spent in coht be discovered if he were under proper restraint? And it is to you, the only relation I have, that I must turn for assistance in lance so full of sweet helplessness that no lad you are here You will be acting forto find your poor lovely child, and the first thing I would have done would be to separate Belaate theistrate But ah, here co, and we can talk further on this ular rout, only a few card-tables, and a little dancing for the young people"