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ten. Lorelie took up the first. which dealt
with the events that followed upon the
The Pelayo Hotel. Pajares.
18th April. 1875.
The newspapers will already have told
you how admirably the rescue was planned
and carried cut, so need not dwell upon
that point
There was, however, one awkward hitch
In the arrangement-the death of Mrs. Mar
Vile: but i am not to blame for that Had
Eric listened to me il would not have hap
pened; my intention was TO proceed direct
to the yacht: he would turn aside TO take
his wife with him. now he has no wife.
Eric Marville is free, and hope yoe are
satisfied.
1.-The superscription Of this letter will
show you that We are no longer on board
the Nemesis.
What is Pajares? you may ask. A
mere hamlet on the northern slope of the
Asturian Sierras, so high UP as to be almost
in the clouds: and the building dignified
with the name of hotel is but miserable
| log posada.
How we came to be here is soon told
TO fly from Quilaix to the open sea. was
| an easy task the difficulty was TO attain
| dry land again in safety; for. as our
| romantic escapade would form the chief
| topic in all the newspapers, it was pretty
certain that at every port a watch would
| be kept for our yacht. We feared putting
| into harbor But land we must-some-
| where. We could not cruise forever on the
open main. How to land without detection
was the problem
Chance decided our course of action.
| We lay becalmed in a wild rock bay off the
| Asturian coast. Anchoring a mile from
| land We swept the shore with the glass
there was neither village nor human dwell
! Ing visible. not a living creature in sight.
1t was the very spot for our purpose and,
| as If to favor us still more, mist came on.
| Marville proposed that we should go ashore
| in the boat and get rid of the tell-tale
| yacht by scuttling it there and then. ] was
| compelled to agree to this plan. for / gould
devise none better. 1t went to my heart to
| watch the beautiful Nemesis sinking out OF
| sight forever, but il would have gore to
| my heart still more to be captured by a
French cruiser, and provided with cell
at Valagenet.
glass and the wind still we rowed of.
| otherwise enveloped in a fog on an iron
bound coast We might have Jared i'll. We
| ran the boat ashore in safety, destroyed il
| Immediately afterwards and paid OF our
crew, who were as glad ourselves to be
quit Of the yacht. for they. too, as fellow
ConspiratorS in the rescue plot, were amen
able TO justice.
1--WE dispersed: and since the crew. went
| eastward, Marville and / turned our& faces
westward. and walking all night as chance
directed, found ourselves at early dawn
| at Gijon, where we rested. We assumed
the character of pedestrian tourists. From
| Gi1on we moved on 10 Oviedo and thence
| to the mountain-hamlet of Pajares, where
| l write this.
81 have found Marville far from being a
| pleasant companion: the death Of his wife
| the pleasure he might otherwise derive
from his newly-acquired freedom.
| His talk, on the few occasions when he
| does talk, turns mainly upon that accident,
| and upon the look of horror which his boy
| gave him. He will never want to see me
| again. he mutters modify.
| Il was not sorry when he proposed that
we should part He saw that his gloom
| was an ill-match for my cheerful nature
| With his love of mountaineering he resolved
| to cross the sierras. and to penetrate into
| Leon. He off without a guide
the door of the posada / watched him
ascending the mountain-path. his solitary
| black form outlined against the white snow
| He dwindled to speck, and that was the
last l saw Of him. Shall we ever sea each
other again? He forgot TO make arrange.
ments for future meeting. and didn't
remind him of the point.
HE has done me irreparable injury. For
him I have wrecked a brilliant military
made myself an exile forever from la belle
France. Why should 1 confess the deed
to him? Haven't I made the fellow; sum
cient atonement?'
Ioreiie took up another letter whiA1 was
dated more than twelvemonth af4r the
first.
Hotel d'Angleterre. Salefno.
81 verify believe that the continual men
ton of an absent evil has the power oil
causing the evil to appear. In every one
my forbiddance, 70 Eric Marville aud hi:
! innocence. Your persistency in this respect
seems 10 have raised him up again fr5m the
things Of the pasta past l was bed nnins
to forget.
| You can guess what is coming.
81 have met with Eric Marville.! More
than a year has passed since l sparteC
from him in the village inn of Pajare:s, hop
| ing never more to set eyes upon him: and
now his disturbing presence is with m,
again. fDisturbingg you say. Yes. You
| know the aphorism. we hate those whom
we have injured and / suppose / have in
jured him: you so often say it in your let
| tiers that / have come at last TO believe IL
What folly led me to Campania? J NIGH
| have foreseen our meeting; for, prior Il
| the rescue, did not / transfer hts bankin,
account under an assumed name to Messrs
| Stradella, of Naples?
| But TO our meeting.
!. | ITO BE Continued Tn-nnnrrnur l II