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em doctor wished her to acquire a little additiona - strength, before he made her undergo the terrible 394 MYSTERIES was destined in vain to await his intended vic- tim. There was a secret tie—a tie of thalblosest nas | ture—between Doctor Moore and the blind man | Tyrrel. The latter had received from the doctor one of those services which never can be repaid, and he felt a kind of gratitude toward him. Their _ interests, moreover, bound them closely tegether. They wished to divide the successorship of the | Marquis de Rio Santo. Both of them lived in | Wimpole street—Tyrrel at No. 9, and Moore at No. 10: their houses joined each other, | Besides this, there was a secret communication | between their houses, very ingeniously contrived ; | a passage, the existence of which no one could | suspect; and it was through this passage that | Moore and Tyrrel entered each other’s houses when they had anything to communicate, so that | the world could not suspect they had any inter- | course with each other, . / | It was by this passage that the house No. 9 | was so speedily evacuated, while Brian de Lan- | caster went to procure the assistance of the po- lice. Moore was absent, and had not been at home during the whole of the day. The house had} remained under the charge of Rowley, the assist-} ant poisoner, who had wrapped himself up in the exercise of his tozological amusements, and had§ left poor Clara Macfarlane to her repose. She had been removed from her dark cell, because the 2 experiment of the galvanic shock. She was GOmIGhbooks:com ;