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——= aT ELLEN PERCY ; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF AN ACTRESS, During that interval a studied system of cruel treatment may drive her really mad; and this is doubtless the aim to which the villain St. Clair is now looking. It is therefore a paramount necessity that we should enter upon our proceed- ings at once. The first step is to establish a medium of communication with Zarah ; and you, Beda, must become that medium.” “T will do everything, Miss, that you com- mand me,” replied the willing girl. “You must go boldly to Norland House,’ I continued, ‘and tell Doctor Beresford that you have been appointed by Captain St. Clair to attend upon Zarah. He will at once believe you: he will see that you know everything connected with the circumstance : he will therefore be thrown com- pletely off his guard ; and he will even fancy that you must have received some special instructions bo ~ Qu . ‘ Sea ak. e, - 4. TA riba TORIC A adv POA \~ vee SSN IN \ " ment to be observed towards Zarah. Indeed, you can throw out a hint to this effect “ But if in the course of the day,” remarked Beda, “the Doctor should communicate with Cap- tain St. Clair and discover that I have practised this deception ce “He could but expel you from his house Beda,” I rejoined. “ Ob! itis not of my own personal safety I am thinking,” she ejaculated. “I would dare anything and everything for poor Zarah’s sake: for never can I forget that it was through her I became introduced to you !” “ No matter, my dear Beda,” I resumed, “ if in the course of the day you should be compelled to leave Norland House. The grand object is in the first instance for you to obtain access to Zarah, if only for asinglehour. ‘You will convey to her the from St. Clair in reference to the mode of treat-| assurance that the treacherous plot of which she No 35.—HE11ex Percy. Com CS Com