that I reside at Cracow, and that the fatal draught was administered, Heaven forgive me with my own guilty hand."

The stranger made the officer of police set down these answers, and requested the anatomist, his assistant, and the keeper of the hall, to sign them, which they readily complied with.

The anatomist then declared that the patient wanted rest, and the officer would not press her to enter into any further explanations at that time.

"Madam," said the officer," I am hardened only against the guilty, or such as I. suspect to be so; but I am compassionate to the unfortunate. Compose yourself here to-night, and to-morrow I offer you an asylum at my house, where my wife will pay you every attention, till the time comes to restore you to your friends."

All the company then left the room except the hall-keeper, who sat up with Theresia the whole night, during which she slept soundly, probably because the

effects

effects of the draught were not yet worn off. The hall-keeper, however, rouzed her at intervals, under pretence of giving her some restoratives, as she had been directed by the surgeon to do, if the patient slept too soundly.

The next morning, Theresia was pretty well recovered; and, after having breakfasted with the hall-keeper, a chaise arrived at the door, in which was the police officer's wife, who came to take her home with her. Theresia expressed her gratitude. to the hall-keeper, and her mortification that she had nothing about her to recompense her for the trouble she had taken on her account; but she promised, that her friends would not forget her. She then entered the chaise, and was politely received by the officer's wife, who ordered the coachman to return to her house, which was situated at the other end of the town. Theresia no sooner got out of the chaise, than she intreated the officer not to lose a minute in exculpating the innocent per

sons,

sons, whom her own guilt had involved in so much distress. She declared, she should never enjoy a moment's ease till she was informed they had been liberated.

"The forms of justice must be gone through," replied the officer-" but your declaration of their innocence has already softened the rigors of their confinement. In order to effect their deliverance, you must give me an account of your being in such a situation, which is all that is now wanting to complete my final report, previously to its being given to the magistrates. The result will be, the immediate discharge of the accused persons.

"That no time may be lost then,” said Theresia, "you shall have that extraordinary account immediately."

CHAP

CHAP. XII.

"I AM the daughter of Major Dauvernop, formerly of Cracow, who died in the service of his country when I was a child: Scarcely had I attained my tenth year, before my mother introduced to me, as a companion, the young Zedeo Darnim, who was the son of the Governor of the Citadel of Cracow, and then about a year older than myself: she bade me call him my little husband.

"I know not by what instinct, but, from that very moment, I had a sort of antipathy towards all children who were not of my own sex. I could not endure to be

alone

alone with Zedeo, much less to join with him in youthful diversions: I rather believe, that his presence was so much the more hateful to me, as I thought I perceived, that he himself was not held to me by any inclination, but solely through the orders of Colonel Darnim. When I had nearly attained my fifteenth year, my mother declared to me, that my father had betrothed me to the son of Colonel Darnim, and that I must look upon Zedeo as my future husband. She then acquainted me with the origin of what I regarded as an insupportable misfortune, and an unjust oppression. There had, from their youth, existed between my father and Colonel Darnim, who were early in life commissioned in the same regiment, the strictest friendship: they had made the same campaigns, and were present at the same battles and the same sieges. They wished, by this marriage of their children, to erect a sort of monument to the friendship which had existed between their fathers.

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