Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 74: what you’re looking at

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That night, when Percy returned to his room, he opened the na ae thet bis grandfather had given him on his death-bed. It coutained au infant's dress, fine and sheer and ticlly embroidered; a flannel skirt which also wags decorated with bennutiful needle-work; a pair of blue worsted socks anda string of beads upon the clasp of which there we.e engrayen two initiala— pies (3 Bey Percy stared ut these articles in astonishment. Of what peculiar interest was that laby's dress, that flannel skirt, those tivy socks to him! That string of heads, too, what was their history in con- nection with Lin? He bad never known of their existence before; why had they bean concealed from him? For some ase? purpose, of course, is grandfather's words caine back to him—nhis confession of wrong for having hidden something from him—his plea for forgiveness for that wrong, — He examined the clasp «attached to the beads again. “Pp, might stand for Porey, but 'H," certainly did not stend for Morton—the name that he had borne all his life. “Was I, too, Cast up from the depths? Was that whit he wished to tell ine?” he said, all the color re- ceeding from his face, a chill creeping nll through him. “AmTInot aiter wll Percy Morton, the son of Saudy Morton's son, but some other child, whom, like Pet, he rescued from an ocean grave! John Morton, whom I have always believed to be my father, had a gon.named Percival I lave seen the entry in the old Bible hundreds of times, What be- cmme of tuat child? Didit die, and was I thrown upon the old gentleman's care aud adopted in its place? It must be so—there is no other. way to account for iy grandfather's strange words on his death-bed and for these gavmeuts which never could have belonged to # child in an humble life and station likemine. *P. HV What do those letters stand for! Who am I! all my life henceforth will be like the restless sea until the mystery is solved.” (TO BE CONTINUZLD,) Gcomicbooks.com