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 ¬coining up to me with great seeming satis- faction said — " I am delighted to have found you at last, as I am borrowing money upon my estate, and could not have touched a mite if I had missed you." I was almost struck dumb with astonishment, and could not guess what he meant, until he told me I was the legal proprietor of his whole estate, and that I must therefore convey it to the lender of the money. — " Good God, Sir," I answered, " you must mistake me for some other person, as I do not remember ever to have seen you in my life." — " Oh yes, you have," said Morven, " he dined with you at my house soon after you were ship- wrecked, and I remember he then said, it would be a pleasant thing to make such a use of so extraordinary a stranger." — I was now, of course, obliged to say, that under Morven's guidance I was at his command, though I could not com- prehend what was intended. — The coach was now emptied out, when I signed my name, I believe twenty times, upon different writings, which of course I could not read, and then ¬made ¬