The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Ee a QE eee eee eee eee ee eee eee °° Se See ee re ee ee eD feel aT ee agin Eager eereere eee | @all you,” interrupted Jane, a sudden reminjsegance " for heaven’s sake hush! I gee that you know me 0 " Yoo—as if by an inspiration!” exclaimed the woman, her eyes brightening vividly with the ver feeling whigh she had just expressed. “ But te me—Oh ! .tell me,” she instantefleously ejaculated, as another reminiscence flashed forcibly to her mind,—“ you did not—no, you did not——""_— “ Hush, Jane! {f know what you’ mean,” in- terrupted Redoliffe. “No!—that heaven above which smiles upon us in its atar-lit beauty, can attest-———” ‘Enough, enough!” murmured Jane: “I be- lieve you—Oh, | believe you!”—and ainking down at Lis feet, she embraced his knees, sobbing with a variety of conflicting feelings, but amidet which a atill wondering joy was the principal. “Rise, my poor woman,” said Mr. Redoliffa, so profuundly affected that the tears were streaming down his cheeka: “rise, I say, faithful—Ohb, too faithful Jane !—so faithful to the memory of your. beloved mistresa that your reason has reeled anc tottered, and been well-nigh wrecked utterly ! Rise: it ignot to mo that you must knéel——-But we should both kneel—and here too!” be added, pointing towards the nameless grave. I have been kneeling there this evening,” anewered Jane: “gl have watered that turf with my tears, for I know whose remains lie beneath | And I invoked the sainted spirit of my beloved mistress————for a, saint in heaven I know she must bel—-I invoked her sainted spirit, I say, to intercede at the throne of Eternal Grace that my reason might be given back to me—and a soft voice seemed to whisper in my ear that the prayer was heard and that the boon I craved was granted! Then I arose from over the turf of that grave: and I was departing, when I beheld the form of some one stop here to contemplate the stone. I beheld you stand awhile on this spot— I marvelled who he could be that thus shared with me the deep, deep interest I feel in this grave: I approached—I recognised ydu.” “ And now will you tell me, Jane,” asked Mr. Redcliffe, who had listened w.th profuandest emo- tions to her etatement—“ will you tell me whence you learnt sufficient to convince you——" ‘eMr. Redclifle—for by that name will I till striking her—v there is this night a human life to be saved—and he who shall be thus saved, will tell youall! My knowledge of everything is bué yet partial: the tale to which I listened remains un- finished ——-”” “And this life that is to be saved?” said Mr. Redcliffe, apprebending for a moment that the poor creature’s intelleat was wandering agsin:. and he gaged upon her anxiously to see if his alarming surmise was well founded. “No, nol” she exclaimed, penetrating what was pasting in his wind; “my reason errs not again! It is as I assure you. In that cottage dwells the sexton, whg cap tell you the tale af this perished one’s hapless fate; and bis life ie in danger—for the miscreant who dead ab Liverpool, is in the neighbourhood ——he is there |” “What!” ejaculated Redeliffer “ Bernge—the murderer of Follard—the men who easaped from e geol———”* , ‘e . WWilarneca Yatleltahac B..hii. ® Pa. be- cunee Senet IMS MtHTERIES OF THE COURT. L | : “Huth, Jane — hush!” eaid Mr. Redeliffo:| “He is there {*’ responded ‘palniting .| ceeded tog&ther in the direction of the of this female, and fe 8 ¢,* towards the cottage; “ and he conte other erime, I was determined to fr about to repflir to the village and invoke the afd of pérsone there to capture the murderer. I had Kéés thinkittr for hours how I should best prevent the ' new crime and hand over the perpetrator of thé old one to justice: for I feared—alas! I foared that whatsoever I might say would be taken only qe the ravings of a poor crased creature }” "We will at once adopt measures!” lated Redcliffe. “Come with me! Henceforth you must not be a wanderer! Come———Bht firat of all one instant’s devotion here /” | Thus speaking, he threw hiniself upon his foes by the side of the grave of the ufnamed one: he bent over the turf—he covered hie face wRh his hands—and Jane, who stood at a short dis. tance, could hear the convulsive sobs that came from his troubled breast. When he slowly acces from his suppliant posture, his countenance, as the moonlight fell upon it, was ghastly pale: bat yet it was not convulsed—it now wore the expression of a deep, screne, resigned mournfulness. He and Jane, issuing from the churebyard, pro- v s and while walking thither, My. Redcliffe asked, “ Wherefore- did you leave that asylum which I provided for you, and where the people, though in —— circumstances, were so kind and good to you 99 a “ Have I not said, Mr. Redcliffo,” reaponded his companion, “that I felt there was a mission to be fulfilled—and that by me it must be socom- plished? I knew that if I asked permission to leave that home which you provided for me, it would be refused; I therefore stole away, taking with me the contents of the purse you so goene- rously left me. nd then, on becoming & wan- ‘derer again, I pProcared for myself the mean apparel which became a wanderer’s conditien——~" “Enough, enough, Jane!” Mnterrupted Mr. Redcliffe. “I was wrong to question you on the subject: I should have comprehended how your unwearying devotion to the memory of ‘your be- loved mistress would have thus rendered you a wanderer until you had ascertained her fate. And I too have been a wandc'yr !” said Mr. Radoliffp, “a wanderer for tho same object—but latterly to seek for you likewise, since { learnt your sudden flight from the cottage near Liverpool. It was not accident—it was heaven iteelf that brought me to this secluded village, that I might meet with you, and through you learn the solution of that sad and long-enduring mystery!” They now entered the village; and the landlord of the little inn was astonished when he. ee dined new guest returning e company strange and egipsy-like woman. But Me. Red- gliffe, st ance making him ap imperative sign to ask no questions, said, “ Let your wife take charge surround her with ail attentions. Let suitable apparel be ther—treat her as you would treat a guest who flourished a well-flléd purse before your eyea-ebut beware bow tion her impertinantly !” The lord bowed—and at once sdmmoned his wife, whom Jane accompanied with the-desite thas very instant when [ encountered you, wat you or any one belonging to you ques- LOAO© COLUM SS (CO)