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Vernon now related all he knew of the machinations of the attorney, concealing no part of his own or his confederate's villany. Of the will he knew nothing, his operations having been confined to the attempts to obtain possession of her person. Dr. Vaudelier was satisfied that his son had told the whole truth. It was a source of much satisfaction to him that he had chosen the better part.
"You must be quiet, sir, or you will injure your arm," said Dr. Vaudelier, mildly restraining the excited man. "O, Emily, Emily!" groaned the sufferer. "Why did I leave you? Why did we not perish together?" "Be calm, sir, be calm! You have lost a friend in this terrible disaster?" "I have. O that I could have died with her!" "Are you sure she has perished?"
Resolving to lay the information he had gained before Dr. Vaudelier, he returned to his canoe, and, having rounded the island, reached the cottage by the usual passage. Henry Carroll still slept. For six hours he had lain under the influence of the powerful opiate. Emily entered his chamber in company with the doctor, on their return from the wood-yard.
The mulatto, having been allowed the liberty of the yard early in the evening before, had contrived to effect his escape from the calaboose, and had walked the whole distance from Now Orleans. Henry Carroll and Dr. Vaudelier had heard the confusion, and judged that the conflict had begun with something more than the war of words.
His mind was now occupied in devising the means of escape; and just as he had struck upon a feasible project, he was interrupted by the entrance of Jerry Swinger, who had been sent by Dr. Vaudelier to ascertain the present frame of his son's mind, and broach to him the tidings that he was beneath his father's roof, a circumstance of which his watchers were also ignorant.
On his arrival, he learned, to his astonishment, that Emily had just gone to Bellevue in company with De Guy a person of whom he had no knowledge. Though Dr. Vaudelier and Henry Carroll had been satisfied with the evidences brought by De Guy, Vernon was not.
Men were busily engaged in throwing on water, and their efforts promised to be crowned with success, for the volume of flame was rapidly decreasing. Dr. Vaudelier was too far off, however, to form a very correct idea of the casualty. Portions of the wreck were floating by him, and occasionally his boat struck against a timber or cask.
Henry's indignation could scarcely be controlled, even by the reflection that Maxwell's wicked intentions had been turned, by an overruling Providence, into the means of her safety. Dr. Vaudelier related to his patient the incident of the wood-yard; not, however, without the necessity of frequently reproving his auditor, whose exasperation threatened serious consequences.
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