. Harper's weekly. his unhappy firm, assisted them with certain ad-vances. This circumstance it was that, preying on a apprehendt successfully disguising his fear, Humpage1 only watched hi* opportunity to escape, when, ??ornne: of lb- ,., March, hi* p-r-precipitated by an movementu:e. whirli reached hi- ear while dr, ; summon* at his door ?inmni; InnI more, he with scarcely a moments oon- ailing iii a first attempt to r.; le downrater-pipe, and cutting his hand sever, vling the room, ho secured a piece of rope [?online: luggage, and. arrangine tbe coil ?? ligh
. Harper's weekly. his unhappy firm, assisted them with certain ad-vances. This circumstance it was that, preying on a apprehendt successfully disguising his fear, Humpage1 only watched hi* opportunity to escape, when, ??ornne: of lb- ,., March, hi* p-r-precipitated by an movementu:e. whirli reached hi- ear while dr, ; summon* at his door ?inmni; InnI more, he with scarcely a moments oon- ailing iii a first attempt to r.; le downrater-pipe, and cutting his hand sever, vling the room, ho secured a piece of rope [?online: luggage, and. arrangine tbe coil ?? light draw it after him, this ti cm cted a .-muigo lo =ay. uuperceived descent. , ill- h Singular uge was opposite to his own rof Mrs. ,-Wrofi ! Confuted t With its darling. Where he completed his dis-guise was never charly known, but at dusk, on thetbirfteenth of March, there appeared, as Mrs. As-croft had truly deposed, a stout gentleman, of civildemeanor, with light bushy hair, and profuse mined him to prc-irvo his present incognito as long as possible—at11 events, until his honest name should be was with great regret that, under the influencec gave up his lodgings at Mrs. Scarcely established in the Westminster lodg-lg, his health, hitherto remarkably strong, began) decline, and so great a change did a few monthslake in the appearance of the once hale and portlylerchant, that it was not surprising if, in the ob-:urity of the City coffee-houses to which he resort-d, he ran little risk of recognition. Caunter, discovered 1 strength to stir. For strange as it may seem, ei-ther the shock he had just received, or the rapiddecay of his bodily powers, or both, bad freed hismind from its tyrannous delusion under which hehad done this extraordinary and well-known act ofellocliug his disappearance and keeping himself con-cealed, for the bare act itself has been on recordlong before now. However, that very same evening Arthur Hag-age, a sane and reasonable man, to hi
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