Despard, the Spy: Or, The Fall of Montreal — page 99: what you’re looking at

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04 DESPARD, THE &PY. adopted a plan which, for boldness, has few parallels in his- tory. They turned back and reéntered the city. In the confusion then existing, and in the darkness, it was a comparatively easy thing to reach Anselmo’s house. Con- rad led them, and knowing: the house well, he undertook to find the key. This done, the men, some ten ... number, en- tered the house. No light was needed ; Despard guided them to the secret place in the walk and sent them in. “ How is this?” said one of the men; “ neatest hiding place I ever saw. This is rather cute: ten of old Put and Rogers’ best scouts cooped up in the city! Suppose our mén get licked, what a nice box we would be in, to be sure !” “ Rather,” said Jake Dowdle. ‘ You'd like it, I s’pose, you durned fool.” “The house has a donble wall, as you see,” said Despard. “That is some of Conrad’s work. He is a mason by trades: and delights in building queer hiding-places.” “T thought Conrad never cared for any man but you,” said Wilton. “ He will do any thing for Anselmo which he will do for me,” said Despard. ‘“ Do not keep me here; I must go to Terese ; she is hurt. Oh, my God, what if she should die now !” “T trust not, Despard,” said Wilton. “I hope you have before you many happy years; you deserve them, if any man does.” | “I don’t know; I have a strange foreboding that all is not over yet. Let me go now.” ; He went back to the rooms above; Terese was still lying upon the couch where he had placed her, with Conrad bending over her. ‘Thi faithful fellow was nearly mad with joy ; the mistress he had loved so dearly had come back to him. Despard dressed the wound, which was slight, and then placing her head upon his breast, drew from her the story of her life. He found that she had spent eight years in a con- vent, without taking the vail. At the end of that time, a man who had been in Montreal told in her hearing that he had seen @ man in Canada, who called himself Despard, who was her lost lover. She left the convent and came to Canada. Here comicbhoOoks.c© a