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"Ifor a moment to bid his servant reward and dise; and in the ain uttered a rejoicing, "We feared you were in the hands of the pirates, sir"

"So I was; but the governor of Gibraltar obtained h to send 's service," said Mr Wayland, taking the arm his stepson offered to assist his lameness "Now for your explanation, Amyas; only let me hear first that my babes are well"

"Yes, sir, all well You had ? I had, the very day I was captured"

By the time they had come to the place where their ways parted, Mr Wayland had heard enough to be so perplexed and distressed that he knew not that he had been drawn out of the way to Hanover Square, till at the entrance of the Royal York, they found Betty asseverating to the landlady that she was bringing no case of s, as a passport of admittance, two little dents on the white wrist and teht Major Delavie hurrying fro-room at his best speed There was a look of horror on his face as he saw his daughter's senseless condition, but Betty sprang to his side to prevent his wakening her, and Aurelia was safely carried up stairs and laid upon her sister's bed, still sleeping, while Betty and Loveday unloosed her clothes Her bearers were sent for refresh on one another in the sitting-room, Mr Wayland utterly shocked, incredulous of the little he did understand, and yet unable to go home until he should hear more; and the Major hardly less horrified, in the midst of his relief "But where's Belamour!" he cried, "Your uncle, I one out"

"So they told me! And see here!"

Major Delavie produced Lady Bela away under a strange stroke of pain and sham "Oh! mother, mother!" and he dashed out of the rooer "Of what do they suspect her?" he said hoarsely