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DANGER IN THE DARK. ~81<br />

" Nor I; yet as she has not <strong>the</strong> means, nor opportunity<br />

of visit<strong>in</strong>g him, it is perhaps better she be left<br />

still with <strong>the</strong> impression that he sleeps <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> quiet<br />

grave. The thought of his liv<strong>in</strong>g aIOJ~e,and so far<br />

away, amid wild solitudes, would doubtless affect her<br />

much."<br />

"Means need not be want<strong>in</strong>g while I have plenty.<br />

As good fortune would have it, that hypocritical<br />

priest, with all his jesuitical schemes and trickery,<br />

didn't quite compass his perfidious designs <strong>in</strong> gett<strong>in</strong>g<br />

my estate <strong>in</strong>to his hands."<br />

"That <strong>the</strong> plott<strong>in</strong>g reprobate was baffied and<br />

disappo<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> that, as well as <strong>in</strong> some o<strong>the</strong>r ends<br />

he aimed at, gratified me exceed<strong>in</strong>gly. Alonzo told<br />

me, with respect to Isadora, that so soon as his own<br />

pecuniary circumstances would justify it, he <strong>in</strong>tended<br />

aga<strong>in</strong> to visit <strong>the</strong> hermit, and persuade him, if he<br />

could, to leave his solitary abode, and return to<br />

C<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>nati."<br />

"No doubt, he would now be easily prevailed<br />

upon to do so, s<strong>in</strong>ce his daughter has abandoned <strong>the</strong><br />

cloister."<br />

" So I th<strong>in</strong>k."<br />

" Let me tell you, Enola, what k<strong>in</strong>d of an enterprise<br />

I have, for <strong>the</strong> last few days, been oontemplatlng-syou'll<br />

th<strong>in</strong>k it visionary, I dare say--"<br />

"No matter-let me hear it, Anna."<br />

" Autumn is now near at hand, which, you know,<br />

is a pleasant season for travel<strong>in</strong>g."<br />

" Yes."<br />

~8

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