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 "I hope not (said Ferdinand) for gladly would I believe the villain wronged him."—"Before I request a more explicit account of this alarming business, let me send to my uncle, and rejoice him with the news of your safe arrival."

"I understood," said Ferdinand, 'that he had quitted my brother."

"Yes, Sir, but the Countess sent for him again when the Count was seized with this dreadful disorder of his senses."

Mr. Dunloff being returned into the room, after he had dispatched a messenger, respectfully entreated Ferdinand to explain those words which had so greatly shocked him.—He very readily took up his story from the arrival of his brother's messenger to the present hour, repeating the particulars which the assassin had told him in his momentary fit of penitence.

During this recital Mr. Dunloff expressed the utmost surprise and horror.—"How true is the observation (exclaimed he) that one