I--" The story was interrupted at this point by a cry from 'Lina, who moaned: "No, no, oh no! He is not my father; is he, Hugh?
Tell me no.

John, Dr.
Richards, pray look at me and say it's all a dream, a dreadful dream! Oh, Hugh!" and to the brother, scorned so often, poor 'Lina turned for sympathy, while the stranger continued: "It would be useless for me to say now that I loved her, Eliza, but I did, and when I heard soon after my marriage that I was a father, I said: 'Densie will never rest now until she finds me, and she must not come between me and Eliza," so I feigned an excuse and left my new wife for a few weeks.

Eliza, you remember I said I had business in New York, and so I had.

I went to Densie Densmore.

I professed sorrow for the past.