Angelina: Or, The Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey — page 243: what you’re looking at

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236 . ANGELINA ;' OR, pass hastily over all that I endured while a prisoner in De Morton Oastie, ahd thé difficulty I had in resisting his nefarious designs; but at length rumour having reported my being a prisoner there, I was removed secretly one night, and conveyed ‘te the Old Grey Tower, but unaccompanied by the baron, who intended to follow me as soon as he had an opportunity. Here I‘endured all the agony which the peculiarity and ‘horror of my situation were calculated to engender, but the principal cause of my anguish was the idea of my infant, my little Hugh, not but that I felt confident Mrs. Clifford would behave with the greatest kindness towards him, but yet what was the utmost attention with- oat the mother’s fostering care ? ‘S Providence, however, interfered in my behalf, and a short time » after this I contrived to make my escape, and travelled with the utmost expedition until E reached the house of Captain Clifford, but was distracted when I found ft closed, learned thet Mrs. Clifford had died suddenly, and that Captain Clifford hed gone to sea again, taking the child with him, under the care of a nurse. ** You may judge of the state of my mind, when I became acquainted with this, and for some time I scarcely knew what I was doing. Fortunately, I had & purse of money, which I had about me when I was seized by the order of the baron,’ and I therefore resolved to make the best of my way to one of the daughters of Captain Clifford, who was married, and endeavour to learn ‘far-~ the’ particulars from her, or at any rate seek a shelter beneath her roof until Captain Clifford might return, which would be in a short time, no doubt. “From the same*individual who furnished me with the intelligence I have mentioned, I was told of the abrupt departure of the Baron de Morton from the ‘castle to the Continent, and thus I considered I had nothiug to fear from him. In my way I had te pass this Abbey, and just as ¥ did so a violent storm came on, and I was forced to seek a shelter in the ruins, I recollected, too, a cir- cumstanee which had qnite slipped my recollection in the multifarious and af- flicting events that had recently occurred to me, and that was the chest of gold ‘which you, Eustace, had buried in those troublesome times in the grounds of Ar< lingham Hall, aud whichby my instructions and the aid of the smugglers, had been secretly removed to the Abbey ruins, and I determined to see if it was safe. Tomy great satisfaction I found it in the same place where it had been Brat deposited, and which did not seem to have been touched jsince. I looked at it, and closed it up again, without toaching acoin. No, I was determined to suffer any difficulty rather than take the smallest portion of the coin which be- dohged to my brother, and: who could do me the injustice to suppose me the guilty wretch that | was reported to be. I was tuming away from the spot, when I was- surprised to behold a light glimmering at the further end of: the vault, and almost immediately thé shadow of a human form met my gaze, which flitted beneath an arch-way with the greatest precipitation. . ~ ** J was, as you may guess, somewhat startied at this circumstance ; but 1 speedily recovered myself, and hestening to that part of the vault whence the form had vanished, I called in a firm yoice,and demanded who was there. ITa- stantly a lond seream struck my ears, and then the fall, as if ef some heavy substance upon the pavement. With a courage I never remember to have felt before, and for which I have never been able to account, I rushed immediately forward in the direetion which the form I had seen had taken, and almost im- mediately afterwards 1 beheld the rays of the lamp which it had carried, and ecomicoookKks 1(GO)