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 "Ah!" said Montilla, " voices approach, strangers are at hand—I will shun the sight of man until my Isidora is confirmed my own; remember thy solemn promise has been given." Most true," said Isidora, raising a jewelled rosary to her lips, " and registered above." Enough," said the mysterious one, and was speedily lost among those leafy walks, left in darkness to increase the effect of the remainder of the garden, which shone brilliant with a hundred thousand lamps. The Marquis Antaldi, her aged father, entered, and started with pleasure at perceiving the infant sate, after the various terrible accounts which had reached him; he was awe struck to learn from Isidora she owed the infant's restoration to the stranger; he reproached her with encouraging his advances, but was cut short by the appearance of Don Alphonso who bowed to the lady and her father, and was about to withdraw, when the Marquis insisted he should stay and propose any question he pleased to his daughter; but Isidora coldly replied, " To-morrow, Signor, every satisfaction shall be afforded you." Alphonso withdrew, and the perplexed and astonished father demanded of his daughter where she had ever seen the extraordinary being who thus walked the earth, in order to perplex and alarm the world. “I have seen him in Europe, Asia, and America, my father." The Marquis looked as if he expected to hear more; but Isidora was silent, for she recollected her solemn promise of secrecy so seriously pledged to the stranger. " Has he no name?" demanded the Marquis. “None, Signor," was his daughter's reply; "but I can answer no further interrogatories—he saved my child at the peril of his life, and I am bound by solemn oath, and no mortal creature can tempt me to infringe it." Isidora remained in a fixed and resolute position, from which she was only moved