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is in no way decided! A trace which appeared only to vanish immediately, and which leaves us onl

. "Very well! It is the first sign of life and being

her to the sofa, and

eps, I notified the police, I advertised in the public journals; but as usual in such cases, no answer came. Four weeks after, at your request, I returned to Hamburg to convinc

peated Jane in

ed in a little village on the coast of the North Sea, coming from Hamburg, where they had been to market, had brought with them a boy they had found there, had kept him

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lure of our investigations hitherto is easily explained. With the usual indiscretion of such people, instead of notifying the authorities of their discovery of the lost child, these fishermen calmly waited for some person to claim him s

people?" interrupted Jan

fisherman's son was sent to a relative, an artisan in a small North-German town, and young master Forest was received into the house of a clergyman in

hint of her brother's possible existence, to arouse all her energies to action. In one minute she

he is not to be found, then we must extend our inquiries to the mechanic who adopted the other boy; perhaps he still keeps up some sort

one thing more! I have at your express wish, thus far, kept all this from Mr. Alison; he has no

pect from him neither assistance nor gratification in efforts which