His Other Wife: A Novel — page 327: what you’re looking at

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FATHER LOUTS’ STORY. © 319 guilt toward herself she will invoke the punishment of the law. Until such time I rely upon your honor as a gentle- man to respect my confidence, and the will of the un- happy woman who has decreed my silence for all these years. Should you find yourself near death before the arrival of that period, you will, as I have done, confide in trust, to another as worthy of your confidence as you are of mine, all that is now committed to your charge, with any further testimony that Providence may cast in your way.’ ‘* Little more passed between us—nothing more relat- ing to this case. The old Indian left my house, and the next day, when I went into his neighborhood for the pur- pose of making some inquiries about his life and charac- ter, I heard that he was dead. I called at the house, and was received by the woman Rachel, who was called by the name of Uriel’s reputed niece. She reported that her daughter had discovered the old man sitting at the table in his bedroom, with his lamp still burning, and an uncompleted letter open before him. A few days after this I learned that the woman had left her daughter in the charge of the old negro nurse, Amy, and gone away. — Subsequently the girl and her nurse were, as I learned, by Rachel’s orders removed to this place in care of Mathew Croft, the prisoner at the bar. Assuring myself of this fact, I believed it my duty to await quietly the course of events. About one month ago I received this letter from Rachel Croft.” iGO cComicbooks 3