of M. d'Orbigny not to execute his promises, and forget
all you have done--and particularly all you wished to do towards him. Go
to law--go to law! Try for justice, and, no doubt, it will right you
with your husband.' A quarter of an hour after our conversation the
wretch of a woman was on the road to the neighbouring town."

"You are right, it is painful to leave such an abandoned creature
unpunished, but a law proceeding is impossible."

"I easily persuaded my father to leave Aubiers the same day,"

resumed Rodolph, continuing the perusal of Madame d'Harville's letter,

"as too many painful feelings were excited by his being where he
was. His weak health will be benefited by a few days' change of
air and scene, as the doctor saw, whom Polidori had succeeded,
and for whom I sent from the neighbouring town. My father wished
him to analyse the contents of the phial, without giving him any
information as to what had passed. The doctor informed us that
he must do this at home, and that in two hours we should know
the result of his scrutiny; which was that several doses of this
liquor, composed with devilish skill, would, within a certain
time, cause death, without leaving any traces beyond those of an
ordinary malady, which he mentioned. In a few hours,
monseigneur, I go with my father and daughter to Fontainebleau,
where we shall remain for some time; then my father wishes to
return to Paris, but not to my house, for I could not reside
there after the late appalling event. As I mentioned in the
beginning of my letter, monseigneur, facts prove all I shall owe
to your inexhaustible care and solicitude. Forewarned by you,
aided by your advice, strong in the assistance of your excellent
and high-couraged Sir Walter, I have been enabled to snatch my
father from certain death, and am again assured of his love.
Adieu, monseigneur, it is impossible for me to say more; my
heart is too full, and I explain but faintly all I feel."

"D'ORBIGNY D'HARVILLE."

"I open my letter to repair something I had, I regret to say,
forgotten. According to your noble suggestion, I went to the
prison of St. Lazare, to visit the poor women prisoners, and I
found there an unhappy girl in whom you are interested. Her
angelic mildness, her pious resignation, were the admiration of
the respectable women who superintend the