Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 302: what you’re looking at

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ciety much when I left home, and consequently brought with me but very few ornaments, But upon changing wy plans I wrote to my husband to bring, when he came, ny necklace and some other valuable articles of jewelry, which had been deposited before I left home in a safety vault in the city where we re- sided. He, with our child and her maid, sailed in the ill-tated City of Boston, which left New York some. time in November of that year, and which was never heard of afterward; and, from that time until last evening, when I read the particulars of this case, the trial of which was to be resumed to-day, I believed myself doubly bereft by that wreck. Now I know that my daughter lives!” ‘ he turned her face toward Haze! as she said this, a tremulons smile of infinite tenderness hovering about her beautiful lips. But the excitement was too much for her—her strength failed suddenly, and she leaned weakly against the railing of the box for sup- port. Some one quickly placed a chair for her, gently Set her in it, and then held a glass of water to her 8. ut Hazel, after those heart-thrilling words by which her mother claimed her—after eye met eye in one long, wistful, ecstatic glance, dropped her pretty head upon Percy's shoulder and quietly fainted away. Dr. Morton and Lord Nelson quickly bore her from the court-room to asimall anteroom near by, where they laid her upon a lounge. scl _ The duchess, feeling very anxious, tolfoWeP ee ea