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Put it back in the box,
Hannah, and if ever you accidentally find to a certainty where the
original is, or her heirs, send the will and the money to her from
Boston or New York, and she will thus get her own without knowing where
it came from."
This was rather a lame way to make restitution, but Hannah seized upon
it as something feasible, and felt in a measure comforted. She would
herself go to Europe some time, and hunt up the Rogers heirs so
cautiously that no suspicion could attach to her, and then, having found
them, she would send them the will and the money she was hoarding for
them. This was a ray of hope amid the darkness--the straw to which she
clung; and the future did not seem quite so cheerless, even when, a few
hours later, she stood with her brother by the side of her dead father,
who had died without a struggle or sigh, just as the chill morning was
breaking in the east and giving promise of a fairer day than the
previous one had been.


CHAPTER XV.
GREY AND THE SECRET.


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