He may, however, have destroyed them, and anticipated my wishes." "And you, with all your caution," sneered Dinah North, "could trust an affair of such importance to another." "He was my creature, sworn to secrecy, and bought with my money, whose interest was to serve, not to betray me." "A person who is capable of receiving a bribe to perform a base action, Moncton, is never to be trusted, especially a low-born fellow, like Walters; and where," she continued, anxiously, "is this man to be found ?" "He left twelve years ago for America, and took out with him, Michael Alzure, my brother's old servant, and Mary Earl, the boy's nurse, who were the only witnesses to the marriage.

I wanted him to take the boy himself, and adopt him into his own family, which would have saved us all further trouble, but this to my surprise he positively refused to do." "To what part of America did he emigrate ?" "First to Boston, where he remained for three years.

He then removed to Philadelphia from the latter place.

I twice received letters from him.
He had been successful in business, and talked of buying land in the western States; for the last six years I have never heard of him or from him.

It is more than probable that he is long since dead." "People whom you wish out of the way, never die when you want them," said Dinah, with her peculiar sneering laugh.