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 help him. I do not doubt for a moment that I ought to link my fate with his,' etc. etc.

"If you are able to send off such a letter then come to the Hertzes to-day at the usual hour. If I do not see you there when I come, I shall look upon it as a sign that I shall miss you for ever, and that my friendship, instead of being the beginning of an everlasting happiness, was only a passing but blessed dream.

"In that case, farewell, and may you be happy!—Yours affectionately,

I put this letter, together with the one to Mr. Stephensen, in an envelope and sent it down to the villa by a little boy.