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198 REYNOLDS’ WORKS the injunetions which I gave you on the occasion of my former visit.’’ ‘Oh, not for the world, Mr. Redcliffe, would I have neglected them,’ exclaimed Lettice. ‘‘ That infamous woman Madame Angelique came down from London to see me a few days after you were last here, but I refused to recelve her. Then she sent an attorney residing at Liver- pool, to offer to conduct my case, but I told the man of business that I was fortunately not without friends, and that even if I were, I would accept nothing at the hands of Madame Angelique.’’ ‘These particulars I have learned from the governor,” remarked Mr. Redcliffe, ‘and I am pleased to find that you have thus fulfilled all my instructions. Your trial will come on shortly; able counsel has been retained for you, and as I have already hinted, I am not idle in other respects. I have entrusted your case to the most eminent solicitor in Liverpool, and this afternoon he will call upon you to ascertain whether he has correctly taken down every detail of the statement which I made him on your hehalf. I purpose to remain in this neighbourhood for a few days, and I shall see you again. But ere I leave you on the present occasion, let me repeat my warning, — that you indulge not too far in whatsoever hope I may have held out, but that you fix your thoughts upon that Heaven whose forgiveness you so much need.”’ Lettice made a suitable answer, and then, as Mr. Redcliffe was about to leave her, she a “ May 1 hope, sir, that Madame Angelique has not succeeded by other means in enticing away Eveleen from the home to which you re- stored her? ’’ ‘“No,’”’ answered Mr. Redcliffe, ‘‘ Eveleen is with her parents. She is fully upon her guard against the machina- tions of that vile woman, and I have no fear that she will either relapse into error, or become the victim of any new snare.” Mr. Redcliffe then took his departure, accompanied by the heartfelt gratitude of the penitent Lettice Rodney. While this interview was taking place between the phil- anthropist and the prisoner, the following conversation was being held in the grounds of a handsome country-seat, about ae miles from Liverpool. That country-seat was CONNIE NCO KS (E(0) m