Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 17: what you’re looking at

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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 9 the hopes he entertained of securing the large pro- perty which had been the principal cause of his leav- ing England. He concluded his welcome’epistle by desiring Clayton to send him occasional news of his daughter, and to address all letters to him under the name of d’Hstelle, Post Restant,* Faris. At the expiration of six weeks another despatch from the father of Eloise contained the welcome intelligence that he had succeeded in obtaining possession of an immense sum of money, and that he should return to _ England as speedily as possible, the moment certain negotiations of a pacific nature were terminated for _ him by an influential relative. Another month elapsed, and a letter, bearing the foreign post-mark, was again put. into Clayton’s hands. M.d’Estelle informed his friend that he had been grossly deceived by the political relative to whom he had before alluded, that he was obliged to seek a momentary refuge in a mean abode, but. that he hoped to be shortly able to effect his escape from the French metropolis, and once more seek the hos- pitable shores of England. He concluded by stating that he had already despatched his money to London, so as not to be burdened with a weighty charge on the day of his anticipated flight from a city where -eontinued horrors were being perpetrated around him, — These were the last tidings that ever Mr. Clayton received of the unfortunate d’Hstelle. Weeks —. months—years rolled away—and still he returned not to the abode where dwelt his daughter and his friends. Horrible suspicions arose in the surgeon’s mind; he doubted not that the gallant French had fallen a victim to his rashness; and as day succeeded day, and no traces of him nor his fate could be disco- vered, hope was forsaken, and despair usurped its place. | ADEE ~ It was now that the generous and noble dispositions of Mr. Clayton and his amiable wife exemplified them- * Letters so addressed are to be kept till called for, ..._.__