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— am = = = =: a SEES nnnnn,, Cama THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. 228 against you,” responded Chiffin, as he gathered up | Thus to asto those around him had he the air of a sort the money. of melancholy madness. “No: and besides,” added Mr. Lawson, “we We must now explain how it was that Dr. Fer- might be of service to you if you got into trouble ney’s mansion in Conduit Street was about to —which we could not be if we ourselves were in- | receive Edmund Saxondale. The reader has al- volved in the same dilemma.” ready understood enough of Dr. Ferney’s character “To be sure, genclmen,” rejoined. Chiffin: but | to observe that he was a man who devoted himself he thought to himself that if he did happen to get | to the medical art, rather from an intense love of arrested it would be hard work indeed for his two | the study in all ite branches, than from simple present employers to save him from the gallows: | motives of gain. He had rendered himself a pro- he did not however consider it worth while to | ficient in anatomy—he was a profound chemist, name this emall circumstance to them. inventive as well as analytical—and he had lately “We will say good night, friend Brown,” ob- | thought of turning his attention to served Mr. Lawson: whereupon he and the Count | ties of the hu mind. When da St. Gerard took their departure. occurred to him timt his thirst for knowi « Now,” said Chiffin to himself, * I must without | the profession ab which he was devoted, wx loes of time make the best of my way to old Bob perience eome gratisontion in peyhologinl study, Shakerly, who knows all about the ins and outs of | he resolved to enter upon it. The Dr. Ferney’s dwelling ; and he will moreover give had obsarved in reapexe to the mind'ef the Earl of me safe and comfortable accommodation at his own } Castlemaine, gave an impulse to this desire on Dr. crib till to-morrow night. It’s rather hard, though, Ferney’s part to push his rescarches and extend I start for Anberica, the better.” caused a portion of Ids house to be fitted up in a —_—— patients; and scarcely were these completed, when opportanity the means of forwarding his views. Amongst CHAPTER CXXXIV. few intimate that he chose to possess, was Dr. Burdett ; to this gentleman had se com- SOMUND AF DR. PERUBY’S. municated the purpose which we have just ex- plained. When therefore Mr. Marlow hastened to Mraswuity Dr. Burdett’s private carriage was | Dr. Burdett and informed him of Lady Saxondale’s rolling through the maze of London towards Con- | desire that her son should be secretly and privately duit Street. The windows were drawn up—the ' transferred elsewhere, this physician immediately blinds drawn down; and Lord Saxondale sat inside, gested Dr. Ferney’s house as one where the with s keeper on his right hand, and another Patient woold experience the best treatment, and placed opposite to him. would be kept in a greater seclusion than a large He spoke not a word: deeply depressed—mise- | and regularly-established asylum could possibly rably desponding, the young man was almost /| afford. Mr. Marlow had not the remotest idea completely spirit-broken. Vainly, when first con- | that Lady Saxondale was ted with Dr. Fer- veyed to Dr. Burdett’s establishment two days ney 3 ae even if he had known that she was so, previously, had he protested against the outrage: | he would still have been far from suspecting that vainly had he declared his sanity: vainly, too, | there were portentous secrets existing between did he have recourse to prayers and ¢én- them. In short, the lawyer saw no reason why treaties—even the moet abject that | Edmund should not be transferred to the physi- his freedom might be restored. He found that he | cian’s house in Conduit Street: but, on the con- was entirely a prisoner—and that it was the inten. | trary, he saw every reason to regard this place as tion of those around to keep him so. Exhausted | most eligible. Accordingly, Dr. Burdett despatched with the excitement of his feelings, and the pas- | by a messenger, a few hurried lines to Dr. Ferney, sionate outpourings of his intercessions, he had | to intimate that he would would seffi him a patient in fallen into that depressed state in which we now the middle of the coming night; and fharfal. leet behold him. Thus was it that be had slept soundly | by any accident the letter should be lost or peerod throughout the night following his captivity ;— | into by ite bearer, Dr. Burdett forbore from men- and the whole of the two following days | tioning the name of the patient who was to be he had wandered about in the i thus transferred to Dr. Ferney’s care. spacious attached to Dr. Burdett’s establishment. That he| To return to the thread of our narrative. Tho had for a moment thought of escape, was but | carriage rolled through the streets of London; natural:—-when however he perceived how well | and half-an-hour after midnight, stopped at Dr. the asylum was guarded, and that the walls were Ferney’s residence in Conduit Street. The phy- bristling with chevaux-de-frise like any prison, he | stcian, who had duly received his friend Burdett’s into | letter, was sitting up in expectation of this arrival. thing in the shape of novelty; but almoet imme. |man, who had Hkewise eat wp, remaining in the diately eank down agaig into gloomy ' hall. the re = COMMUC DOO CS (COL