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a the poison of a desperate suicide ? ty ; it i i RIEER FESS na ; if i [ capecity and glorious besaty! And I too,” continued Dr Forney,” with passionate vehemence,—" I too have beem rendered, though heaven knows how uncon- eciously at the time, an accomplice in the etupen- dous fraud which you have perpetrated {” “ Ahi” ejaculated Lady Saxondale, becoming white as a sheet, and her lips livid, as she half- | sammated. started from the sofa: “would you allude to that mystery —would you allude to it, I ask? Re- member solemn whatever its i end you would elig Saxondale,” responded the physici i eyes penetratingly upon bet; “if accident should have brought circum stances leading to a thorough revelation of the motive f’ “Enough, enough!” murmured Ledy Saxondale, in a hoarse voice: “there may be listeners!” — starting from the sofa, she sped to the door of en reunately we are unhoan’ by otherey she said, having opened the door and orn Bee, unfortunate woman,” remarked the phy- sician, “what it is to have a conscience. single "Hike « spark to a mam of ganpowder, an’ if in whispers,—and tell me what has occurred, you have come thus to upbraid me now ?” The suffered himself to be so far per- auaded that he did sit down by Lady Saxondale’s eide upon the sofa; and for a moment an expres- sion of triumph bial which you : | to the guilty and intri @ Beene» a> FEE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. took from my —how came it in the possession of the ais of ” “What !” her lad amazed at the new turn which the physician’s discourse had thus abruptly taken: “are you acqusinted with is °° the “Never before this day. He brought me the phial for ion—” “And you have kept it? you have kept it ?” interrupted Lady Saxondale, eagerly. “Oh, yes indeed! I have Kept itr answered the payin “and never more shall it quit my Pe No—Leep it, events give it not | quis of it—destroy it—or at all to the hands of the Mar- “ Ah! cerry Woman, T gmprebend said Dr. Ferney, an expression of renewed anguish over his countenance: “it is the evi- dence of some fresh erime which you are thas desirous should be withbuiden from the hands of ot Soletaly do I wick] weponded bes Bayhip, “thet no’ frodh sine 7 oun. ae ee am T to think F” asked the phy- —*“that it was meditated, but that it failed ? Oh, my heavens! is it all a dream? or $s it a hideous reality? Can one of such splendid to penetrate beauty as yourself be eo darkly criminal P” Spare me ! i "° answered Ferney, dowly wing his hand, and looking her ladyship fall in the face, * ia an inmate of m= house.” “Of your house?’ she repeated: “of your house P”——and she gased in a sort of wild astonish- ment upon Ferney. “What means this? what circumstances have brought it about? Are you resolved to ruin me P have him there to A | serve such a purpose? Oh, am I decsived in you ? are you nO my friend ? do you hate me now P Why—why seek to drive me to distraction ?” “Calm Lady Saxondale—caim your- eclf, if you can,” answered the physician, alarmed at the terrific excitement which she had just mani- fested. ‘Edmund was last night transferred from Dr. Burdett’s asylum to my house——” At this moment the door opened; and Lady Saxondale suddenly assumed an air of composure as a domestic entered to t a letter which had just arrived. It was from Mr. Marlow, and briefly announced “that on the previous night Lord Saxondale had been carefully and secretly removed to the abode of a very eminent physi Ferney by name, and who resided in Conduit Street.” This letter was a source of infinite relief triguing woman, inasmuch as it proved to her in a moment that it was through no hostile intent Dr. Ferney had become the cus- coincidence: todian of Edmund—but that a strange self that the domestic who brought the letter had retired, she said to Ferney, “This is from my solicitor, announcing that Edmund is at house.” Que ~Engnawee ¢Gumeepe. ae’ asepeeae oe wee s+ (GO) iC C) DOO CS (COL