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old parsonage, a very different scene occurrred at the inn, 

 where he had left the poor woman. Scarcely had Frank 

 turned his back, when the " outlandish body," who could not 

 speak a word of English, espied the Count, sitting at his 

 window — uttered a wild cry, and rushed directly into his 

 apartment. A tender scene ensued, — tender, at least, on the 

 part of the lady, who had found in the secluded nobleman, the 

 husband she had come so far to seek. What explanation he 

 might have found it necessary to make to Fanny, cannot now 

 be known, for his interview with the true claimant on his 

 affections, was suddenly and disagreeably interrupted by the 

 entrance of two police officers. 



The story is soon told. Some months previous, a certain 

 Princess in Europe had been robbed of jewels to a large 

 amount by one of her valets. The robber had been traced to 

 America, but there all track of him was lost, until an agent of 

 police who was keeping watch over his wife, discovered that she 

 was preparing to join him. Disguising himself and assuming a 

 feigned name, the myrmidon of the law took passage in the 

 same ship, and following closely in her footsteps, discovered 

 him in his village retreat. It was hard that Love should have 

 thus turned traitor ; but the unhappy woman did all she could 

 to atone for her unconscious error. She determined to share 

 her husband's misfortune and disgrace, and when he was carried 

 back to his native land, with the brand of shame stamped 

 deeply upon him, she was the companion of his long dreary 

 voyage. 



