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fortune, and reputation--possibly the mother of children ere to

perpetuate the noble nahteous

craft, what subornation of witnesses, what concealments, what

barefaced and unscrupulous falsehoods had this adventuress been

imposed upon him as unmarried, when the evidence of her former

wedlock was held by a low stroller--a drunken wretch who uarded or insane hour, and who, judging fro the

infor this than by

preserving the secret And how came he by these papers?

Confused, partly by his numerous aliases, more by incapacity to

conceive of such depth and complication of horror as were revealed

by the idea, the perplexed thinker did not, for a while, adabondhusband, instead of a mercenary villain who had

secured surreptitiously the proofs of alearned that she had wedded, a second time,

in her maiden name, and that her antecedents were unsuspected in her

present ho a bribe to continued silence,

froeley, would have occurred to any common

rascal with more audacity than principle It was but a spark--the

e of the precipice

tohich one link after another of the chain of circu her