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The snows of ten winters had powdered the naround of the Ridgeley plantation For nine

years the wallet taken from his person had lain unopened in a hidden

drawer of Mabel Dorrance's escritoire, and the half-guessed secret

been hidden in her breast Mammy Phillis had followed her mistress

to the toe

to the despised "quarters" She never held up her head froradation, died from a broken heart, murmured those who

best knew her--of a "fit of spleen," said Mrs Aylett, in cool

reprehension of her unuarded the mystery well Her husband exa to her ideas--with

regard to the vagaries of her deliriurave

simplicity of her manner and replies

"All she knows or remembers is substantially this," Herbert jotted

down in his notes for his sister's perusal: "she has associated in

some way--she cannot tell exactly hohy--the naarret She is not sure that it was his

designation Thinks it was not, or that, if used by him, it was an

alias Has an i, or

upon a paper found in his pocket Showed no agitation and little

interest in the subject, except when she inquired if I saw the