CHAPTER XL.
When I opened my eyes, after some four hours sleep, I found the Count seated by the bedside. ■ ' '* " What is the patter ? '' I said, starting_up. "' Is there anything fresh ? Why didn't' ybiT wake me?" , . ' ' "I have not been waiting long," he an.-' swered. " But first > tell me how you f eeT about the head." }'\Oh, all right! — but for a slight pain about-ihe broken spot." ;•' No dullness — no confusion of ideas ? " j" N6-rnothing of the kind I " to hear it;l felt rather doubtful aboufrlh'e -case when we -picked you up. And now for my news ;' i you remember that I asked Walter-* to come to breakfast with us this morning ? " "Yes!" • j i " Well, he is here now, and I was looking forward with pleasure to the communication I intended to make to him, when the post brought me this letter. Bead it ! " Surprised at his manner, I took the letter and read with still greater surprise the following lines : * , " Count OHustiniani is hereby informed that the young man to whom his daughter is to be married has no right vto ihenamohe bears— nor to any other,* name.', He is the child of shame, and his' supposed father is not his father at all. Let Count 1 Gdustiniani put this to the proof, and believe the writer accordingly. (To be continued.)
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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1622, 25 November 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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223CHAPTER XL. Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1622, 25 November 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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