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50 ALFRED DE ROSANN. don; years have however past since that person quitted this kingdom.”’ ~ & And you know not where to find that person, M. le Comte?’ said Robson. “ Candidly, I do not.” “By your own confession, then, it would appear you have no right even to those papers, much less to the fortune of the Marquis de Denneyille,” cried the banker in a severe tone. “That is my affair,” returned Belle-Rose, with his usual coolness and effrontery. “T beg your pardon, M. d’Elsigny ; but you will excuse me if I be somewhat inquisitive, because I am entrusted with a considerable sum, which I dare not resign to the first individual who steps forward to claim it.’ “ You have more claimants than one, I suppose,’’ said Belle-Rose, smiling ironically. | “J will be as frank with you as you have been with me,’ replied Mr. Robson, seeing that the so@- disant Count might be induced to listen to reason, although he did not fear intimidation. ‘ There are no claimants for this property, M. d’Elsigny ; but there is a young gentleman, a fellow-countryman of your’s, who isin communication with me on the sub- ject. He has discovered the abode of the existing heir to the Marquis de Denneville ; he possesses the authority of that heir to guarantee all he does in the business,’’—Mr. Robson did not think a little false- hood in such an emergency could be constructed into a erime of very flagrant dye—‘and even without your papers he can soon find satisfactory evidence enough to ease my mind, and to induce me to give up the funds entrusted to my charge since the year.1796 or Loge : “And the name of this young gentleman—this follow-countryman of mine—is Alfred De Rosann,”’ exclaimed Belle-Rose, considerably crest-fallen since the above explanation. “The very same.’’ Gomichooks.com