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 with commiion to dicloe my death, and, under that pretence, to eal his title to my fortunes, by fending her, and thee, her new-born on, to bear me company in the gloomy confines of the grave.”

“And was my mother murdered too?” interrupted the agitated and impatient Glanville.

“The udden news of her huband’s fate pared the murderer’s intended purpoe. She urvived not the melancholy tidings. Thus far fortune favoured his cured deign, and thou alone remained the obtacle to top his guilty progres. But even this difficulty his genius, fertile in michief, urmounted. Such of the ervants whom he upected of too trong an attachment to their deceaed lord, he found means to dicharge; and then introducing thoe more friendly to his interet, he gave thee to a ruffian, with trong injunctions to detroy thy life; and, the better to conceal this wilful murder, conveyed a deceaed infant to thy cradle. This part of his infernal plot ucceeded to his wihes; all believed thy death was natural; but here the arm of heaven interpoed, and natched thee from the murderer’s grap, who, diappointed in the proecution of this horrid purpoe, bemeared his hands with blood, returned to claim the promied bounty, and confirmed thy death with horrid oaths and dreadful imprecations. What follows, thou thyelf art well acquainted with. Now liten, my on, to thy father’s charge. Haten hence to join the forces of the Britih king, to whom the name of Raymond is well known. In the advere army thou will meet thy father’s murderer; hunt him through every rank; he will fall beneath thy conquering word; yet pare his hated life, till, in the preence of the royal Edward, he has confeed the crime that clogs his guilty foul. Fear not the jutice of the Englih monarch; he will place thee in the poeion of thy family’s honours and etates, and thus appeae the manes of thy departed fire. Do this, my on, as thou hoped for future happines, and revere the memory of thy murdered friends.”

The hadow then glided from his fight, and the