Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 107: what you’re looking at

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& ALFRED DE ROSANN. 99 absent. At length he returned, accompanied by an individual bearing a portmanteau of an uncommon weight, if I might judge by the way he staggered under the heavy load. This was my lodger’s ser- vant; and from that. moment he took up his quarters with his master; there being a bed in each room. ~The Marquis de Denneville—for such was his rank and name—made a confidant of me, and threw him- self entirely on my mercy. It appeared that a price was set upon his head—that since the overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty he had hitherto remained con- cealed in England—and that he had at length return- ed to his ‘unfortunate country,’ as he called it, to endeavour to influence a powerful relative in his be- half. This last resource had failed—his relative had proved himself a faithless friend,—and temporary concealment for the Marquis de Denneville was neces- sary, until he could find an opportunity of reaching Calais and passing over to England. All he had suc- ceeded in doing was to realize a considerable portion of his former property, the whole of which had not been confiscated; and the proceeds, in gold and bank- notes, were in the portmanteau that Gustave, his faith- ful adherent, brought to the house. ‘I havea child— an only child,’ said the Marquis; ‘and God knows what may become of me! Her mother is dead; and, although she be with kind friends, still must I look to her interests. This money will be useful to her in after-life—when I shall be no more!’——and tears moistened the old nobleman’s cheek, as he uttered these words.——A bout a month passed away, and Gus- tave died of a sudden attack of apoplexy. The grief of the Marquis at this unfortunate event cannot be con- ceived; and his embarrassment was greater than his sorrow; for the faithful domestic had intended to un- dertake a journey to one of the western: frontier towns, in order to secure a safe passage for Iris master across the channel. It was now that an infernal idea entered my head; the treasure of the Marquis haunt- ed me perpetually, beset me during the day, and fol- © ecomnlelooolkks (C@