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 cept; but she loved you, thought as you would marry her she might one day have a title, and a fortune; the rest you know.

"I heard from my brother; his master was dead, and he had secured to himself all his effects. He was returned to Ratisbon, and proposed I should come and live with him, as he had opened a gambling-house. I did take from you—all I could, and went to him.

"One day, going through the streets, a short time since, I passed a young woman, who seemed to look earnestly at me, and presently pronounced my name; I turned, it was Charlotte.

"Overjoyed at meeting, I took her home. She there told me her whole story of being carried to Turkey, meeting with you, returning to Vienna, and being carried off from the Turk by a Count, who was killed by Heli; upon which she fled from him with a box of jewels the Count had given to her.—She intended to go to England, but crossing