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312 Court of Bankruptcy, and ruined tradesmen; and that poor girl, Miss Monteneros, is all alone, and I want you—"

"My dear, don't say another word, I'll go and fetch her. Of course, she must come to us. Dear me! what a world it is! nothing but changes, the Sampsons gone off, and John talking of a voyage, and both the girls going to be married."

"Yes, I know," Willis said, "and I was coming to wish them joy," and he actually went and kissed his sisters-in-law, and said he was delighted. "And now, ma'am, are you ready?" While she went to put on her bonnet, Captain Hopkinson enquired into the probable amount of Willis' own loss, He said that if Baron Sampson's were a mere ordinary bankruptcy, he should lose but a few thousands; but there were rumours of forgeries to a great extent, and he could not yet know whether he might not be one of the victims. "Miss Monteneros does not know either, whether her fortune is not gone too." However, thanks to the blindness of