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 pleace; there is a murder just done by the church; the two poor gentlemen that comes so often here, the baronight." "Who," said Captain Mortimer, "and 'Squire Hamilton, are lying a corpse." Maria, in the most terrible apprehensions, from the exordium of this narration, at its conclusion, fell lifeless on the ground. The captain and his brother, both imputing this paroxysm of grief to her love for Hamden, recommended to young Mortimer the care of his sister; ran towards the place which the servant mentioned, hoping that the accounts might be false; yet, in their agitation, took no pains to examine the man, as to the source and particulars of his information. Mortimer, with the assistance of Maria's maid, at length brought her to her senses, but only to open to her visions of despair. She instantly conceived that Hamilton had un