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 it; as alo for keeping it out of the tenacious clutches of Stephen.

After a long paue of deliberation, he poke in this manner: ‘Hearken to me, my daughter, I have thought of a cheme for managing the whole matter. Weigh out all thy gold to me, that I may keep it faithfully for thee: then I will write a letter in Italian, which hall run in this manner—that thy brother, who went abroad everal years ago, had ailed for the Eat Indies in the Venetian ervice, and that he died there, having firt made a will, leaving thee all his property, under condition that the paron of the parih hould be thy trutee, that it might be for thy ue alone, and that of no other peron. I do not deire fee or recompence for myelf; only conider that thou art indebted to the upplications of holy mother church for the bleing Heaven has howered down upon thy head; therefore preent our chancel with a rich urplice for mas.’ This cheme Rh