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 Mr. D'Allenberg's arrival at their seats.That same evening he had the satisfaction to hear, he might embark the next morning for Ulm. He took leave of his hospitable friends with much kindness, and requested to hear from them, should they gain any information of the robbers.

With an eager desire to return, but with the most tormenting ideas and suspicions, that wrung his very soul with sorrow, he entered that boat which was to convey him to his own country, where he was to investigate such events as must realize those suspicions, or involve him in a cloud of doubt for the remainder of his days.

So many, and so various, were the causes that produced sorrow and misery to Ferdinand, that there existed no possibility of future comfort, or any cure for those wounds severally inflicted by those he had loved.

The weather was favourable, and he was soon landed at Ulm, where, on application to a Gentleman who knew his family, he