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he called his client’s obstinacy, that he threw up
his brief, and the junior took advantage of the
circumstance to make a most eloquent speech,

enlarging upon the singularity of no appeal
having been previously made by the plaintiff—
of the extraordinary disappearance of the wit-
nesses—of the straight-forward, simple, and
beautiful truthfulness of the defendant ; in short,
he moved the court to tears, and laid the fuun-
dation of his future fortune. But after that
day, Sarah Bond and her niece, Mabel, were
homeless and houseless. Yet I should not say
that; for the gates of a jail gaped widely for:
the ‘‘miser’s daughter,” but only for a few
days; after which society rang with praises, .
loud and repeated, of Mr. Alfred Bond’s libera-
lity, who had discharged the defendant’s costs
as well as his own. - In truth, people talked so
much and so loudly about this, that they alto-
gether forget to inquire what had become of
Sarah and Mabel.

CHAPTER IV.

The clergyman of the parish was their first
visiter. He assisted them to look into the fu
ture. It was, he who conveyed to Sarah Bond
Alfred’s determination that she should be held

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