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Chapter 7

The next morning, Ralph never appeared--the day passed on, and I heard

nothing--at last, when it was evening, a letter came from him.

The letter informed me that my brother had written to Mr. Sherwin,

simply asking whether he had recovered his daughter. The answer to

this question did not arrive till late in the day; and was in the

negative--Mr. Sherwin had not found his daughter. She had left the

hospital before he got there; and no one could tell him whither she

had gone. His language and manner, as he himself admitted, had been so

violent that he was not allowed to enter the ward where Mannion lay.

When he returned home, he found his wife at the point of death; and on

the same evening she expired. Ralph described his letter, as the

letter of a man half out of his senses. He o