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7 pred the corpse with clothes till opportunity served for their carrying it away.

Early next morning, the sister hastened to her father's house, where, with igns of great joy, she inquired for the handsome young sailor that was to lodge; there last night. The old folks at first denied that they had seen any such man, our she told them he was, her long lost brother, which she knew assuredly by scar upon his arm, cut by a sword in his youth, and that they had made an appointment to meetthere the next morning and be merry.

The father hearing this, hastily ran up into the room, and finding the mark as his daughter had told him, with horrid regret of this monstrous murder of his own son, and with the very, knife wherewith, he killed him, he cut his own throat. The mother shortly after went up stairs to consult with her husband what mode of conduct they would pursue in order to elude being, suspected of he atrocious crime, when she beheld him weltering in his blood wild and