ABSTRACT
Colonel Aubrey’s sorrow at beholding me in captivity for some moments prevented his speaking. I too was silent, but from another cause; – destined to meet the man whose hands I had stained with blood; whose friendship I had so little merited; whose peace of mind I had destroyed for ever; my torture was infinite! I dreaded to expose Amelia’s name to the prying eye of censure; and yet I knew not how to preserve her reputation, without the most infamous hypocrisy towards my patron, my friend! that generous, brave, and liberal friend, who, when the world forsook, adopted me! who espoused my cause at the peril of his life; and voluntarily offered me the means of future happiness, when despair had threatened to be my only companion!
