he had hardly eaten, and that he had not flept for fix and thirty hours. The increased agitation of his mind, together with exceffive fatigue, now made him fenfible of perfonal uncafiness; he felt his blood inflamed, and his head giddy, while, though he was not himfelf conscious of it, his looks were wild, his eyes bloodshot, and his whole appearance- (an appearance altogether ftrange to him) fuch as a man falls into who has paffed nights and days at the gaming table and the tavern.

He began, however, to fufpect, that if he did not allow himself a few hours repofe, he should be reduced to a state in which it might not be in his power to feek Medora or her mother; he was therefore returning to his lodgings, when in croffing towards Picadilly from the Haymarket, he saw in an hackney coach (which was for a moment in an embarraffment between fome coal carts) Medora fitting in conversation, and, as it appeared, unreluctant converfation, with

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the well looking middle aged gentleman. He even faw that fhe smiled, yet it was a faint and melancholy fmile, while he hung upon her every word with an expreffion of the fondeft delight. This was not to be endured-Regardlefs, indeed not thinking of confequences, Delmont rufhed forward; but at that moment the impediment being withdrawn, the coachman whipped his horses on, and as if to recover the time he had loft, drove with unusual speed up Swallow Street.

Delmont, in all the hafte he could make, followed it-But it was now hidden from him by other coaches, and he was now impeded by a cart unloaded on the pavement. The people who faw him imagined he was either fome unfortunate young man pursued by a bailiff, or one who had juft efcaped from the keepers of a madhouse. Delmont heeded not what they thought; he did not even fee them, but with eyes eagerly ftraining after the coach, he croffed in pursuit of

it Oxford Street, and at last saw it stop at the door of a private house in Portland Street. He waited in, breathless agitation a moment. He beheld Sir Harry Richmond get out and affift Medora, and they went into the house together-The black fervant took a parcel that was in the coach, paid the coachman, and was going to fhut the door, when Delmont, without asking or anfwering any questions, pushed by him, and as, by the door of the parlour being open, he faw that thofe he fought were not there, he rushed up stairs, and threw open the drawing room door-He faw what completed his astonishment, indignation-Medora fitting on the knee of her companion, his arm round her waist, and her head declined on his shoulder.

"Monster! villain! feducer!" exclaimed Delmont, who ftepped on, as if he meant to wreck his vengeance in another manner-when Medora ftarted from her feat, and threw herfelf almoft fpeechlefs

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into his arms, faintly attempting to utter fome words which he could not hear.

The stranger in the mean time, after a very short paufe, feemed to guess who Delmont was, and advanced towards him. "Mr. Delmont," faid he, holding out his hand towards him-" Is it not Mr. Delmont ?"

"Dare you ask?" exclaimed the enraged Delmont. "Oh! God !" cried Medora-" what do you mean, my dear friend! it is my father!" "Your father!"

"Oh! yes, my own dear father." Delmont felt the revulfion of his blood to be fo violent, that he was compelled to fit down, ftill holding Medora's hand "Your father!" repeated he-" Oh! Sir, what have I not endured of agony within these few moments-but Medora is fafe, fafe in your protection."

"And fhall never leave it, Delmont," cried Glenmorris, embracing them both with great emotion, "but for yours→→→→

Yes,

Yes, my dear friend, Medora is restored to us, the fame innocent, the same lovely and admirable creature; but her mother!"

"What of her ?" afked Delmont, ea gerly, "what of Mrs. Glenmorris ?"

"Alas, we know nothing," faid Medora, fobbing—" We have not yet been able to trace her, my father. ..."

She paused, not having the power to proceed" Delmont," cried Glenmorris, his voice trembling; "where can fhe be? By what unaccountable accident have I loft my wife? Think what I have fuffered even in fo unexpectedly regaining my daughter, to know that of her mother nothing has been heard fince their separation. Before I fat out for the country I had learned that no one in London knew where he was; all they were certain of being, that she and her daughter were feparated, and nothing known of either of them."

Delmont put up his hand to his head -He was giddy and confused-The