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 and communicated the contents of the letter he had received.

No one could be sorry that such a nest of villains were on the point of being exterminated; but Ferdinand could never prevail upon himself to charge his brother with the assassination he met with, nor the heinous crime which had led to it; those two particular atrocities he forbore to mention even to his best friends; he left them always to suppose he was only attacked in common with other passengers.

A week was spent at the Count's in all the delights of love and friendship, in which time the Ladies heard from the Countess, that "she had found no difficulty in having her affairs settled, no one had doubted her rights, nor any other claim seemed to be remembered; she hoped therefore, in less than a month, to join them at Mr. d'Allenberg's mansion."

The party now prepared to separate; the Baron to his father's Castle for a short time, having received an invitation to meet