Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 75: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER X. PERCY BECOMES A PHYSICIAN. OR several weeks after Cap- . tuin Morton’s death Perey was not at all like himself. | The housekeeper and Hazel - attributed it to grief on account vy Of the loss of his grandfather, & and he did not undeceive them. He brooded continually over what he had learned, or rather “- what he bad yet to learn, re- ~% garding the contents of the * package which had been given to him on the last day of Sandy Morton's life. When the captain’s will was read it was found that he had left everything to Perey, as he had intimated he shoulddo, He had managed to save a great deal during his long and frugal life, and this, together with the life insurance which had come to him on the death of his son, amounted to upward of four thousand pounds, so that our young hero found him- self quite independent. “Dear old man! how fond he was of me,” he mur- mured, after reading thesimple and tender bequest ; “but he ought to have told me years ago if there was any mystery connected withmy life. But, doubtless, helnew no more about me than he did about Pet. I ‘remember he told. me once that only three were known .to haye been saved from ‘Captain John's’ vessel—the first mate, the steward, and myself. Can it be possible that there were two children on board, that I was mistaken for the captain's son, brought homne to his father, and the mistake discovered by the articles of clothing that I wore and those initials upon that clasp? It must be so, and those good old people, grieving for their own lost lovarnnisties: