Still I managed to borrow about L2000 from that little lawyer out of the L5000 that remain to me, an independent sum which he was unable to touch, and, Alan, with it I came to find you.
"Alan, Lord Aylward followed me; although everybody else was ruined, he remained rich, very very rich, they say, and his fancy was to marry me, also I think it was not comfortable for him in England.

It is a long tale, but I got up here with about five-and-twenty servants, and Snell, my maid, whom you remember.

Then we were both taken ill with some dreadful fever and had it not been for those good black people, I should have died, for I have been very sick, Alan.

But they nursed me and I recovered; it was poor Snell who died, they buried her a few days ago.
I thought that she would live, but she had a relapse.

Next Lord Aylward appeared with twelve soldiers and some porters who, I believe, have run away now,--oh! you can guess, you can guess.