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With the mother at the point of death, and the child delirious, who could testify to this hated convict's skilfulness? No one but Mr. Maurice Frere, and Mr. Maurice Frere, as Commandant of convicts, could not but give up an "absconder" to justice. The ship changed her course, and came towards this strange fire in the middle of the ocean.
Stooping over it, impelled by an irresistible impulse to know the worst, he found the body was mangled. One arm was missing, and the skull had been beaten in by some heavy instrument! The first thought that this heap of rags and bones was a mute witness to the folly of his own undertaking, the corpse of some starved absconder gave place to a second more horrible suspicion.
"You see, I was only nine at the time," says she, "and there was so much going on, and Papa was so upset about all those letters." "Which letters?" says I. "Oh, the people who wrote to him during the trial," says she. "You've no idea hundreds and hundreds of letters, from all over the country; from strangers, you know, who'd read that he was well, an absconder. They were awful letters.
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