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the recompense of her wicked deeds even in
this world, and terrible, is it to be feared, will
be her lot in the world to come. Behold, the
day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and
all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall
burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch.
(Mal. iv. 1.)

It was not till after Susan Gray had been
dead seven years, that I heard of the sad end
of Charlotte Owen. She went, as has been
before said, after the Captain, when he left
Ludlow. It was true, indeed, that he did not
wish for her company: however, he took her
with him to London, and she lived with him
about a month; at the end of which time the
Captain’s wife came from Ireland: for this
wicked man, in spite of all the vows and pro-
mises he had made to Susan Gray, had been
married about twelve months to a very rich
lady in Ireland.

The Captain then left Charlotte Owen, and
went abroad to the West Indies, where I heard,
some time afterwards, that he died, I fear,
without repentance.

What became of Charlotte Owen after that
time, for some years, I could not hear; but I
afterwards found, that she had led a very wick-
ed life; for, at the end of seven years, a friend
of mine, who is a clergyman in London, com-
ing to see me in the country, told me, that, a
few months past, he had visited a poor wretch
who was dying in a garret» in a narrow alley