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You know her father never attempted to see her while he was still at large.

After his arrest he instructed that relative of his--the odious person who took her away from Brighton--not to let his daughter come to the court during the trial.

He refused to hold any communication with her whatever." I remembered what Mrs.Fyne had told me before of the view she had years ago of de Barral clinging to the child at the side of his wife's grave and later on of these two walking hand in hand the observed of all eyes by the sea.