8/13 He proposed that I should marry him to take care of him and legitimatize our child. I was forced to tell him what I had done with her, and that the Trust could not be disturbed until she was of age and her own mistress. We married, but he died within a year. He died, leaving with me his acknowledgment of her as his child, and the right to claim her if I chose." "And ?"--interrupted the colonel with sparkling eyes. |