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3/6 THE COURT OF LONDON ted by a heartless vanity, and not by a genuine grief? Ah! there is gaiety even in your very mourning, there is finery in these weeds which you have assumed. You treat me as if I were already dead — ” Here Arabella threw herself with no affected outburst of grief into her father’s arms, and besought him to pardon her if she had in any way done wrong, but, amidst rending sobs, she gaspingly declared that whatever she had done was at her mother’s suggestion. ‘Well, we will say no more about it,’’ said Emmerson, disengaging himself from his daughter’s embrace, for he was a man who disliked all huggings and kissings from those who were nearest and ought to have been dearest to him. “You have got that money safe?” he asked, turning abruptly toward his wife. “Yes, to be sure, all except what we have laid out,’ and she wpnited down at her sail pee garb and then at that of her daughter. ‘Now, understand me,’ said Emmerson, speaking in a low but ae tone and with a look profoundly serious. ‘“‘ All hope has not abandoned me; indeed, I am confident of being enabled to escape. Now don’t be foolish, Arabella, we shall be overheard,” he said, suddenly turning toward his daughter, who gave vent to a paroxysm of unfeigned joy at the tidings which had just met her ears. “ = all depends,’ he continued, again speaking to his wife, ‘‘ upon your keeping that money safe until the eye it is wanted to pay those who will assist in ti escape.” | ‘Depend upon it,’ answered Mrs. Emmerson, “ that it is as Safe with me as if in the Bank of England.” We need not dwell any longer upon this interview, which lasted but little more than half an hour, for so soon as Em- merson had assured himself that the money was really safe in his wife’s keeping, he rather wished that she and Arabella would take their departure, so that he might once more give way to that opiate lull in which he had during the early part of the day steeped his senses. On the following morning Emmerson awaited Dick Mel- moth’s arrival with the most acute suspense. In due course the turnkey made his appearance to inquire if Emmerson would have the barber, and with such greedy haste did the condemned man reply in the affirmative, that the prison 1) EGomichbooks Go