ABSTRACT
How long the wretched Gabrielle might have remained in this situation, or what might have been her dreadful fate, admits not of conjecture, had not the amiable Madame Bertrand, who had not seen her the preceding day, deemed it an act of duty and propriety to visit her as early as possible upon this. Raising the latch of the door she entered; but perceiving no one in the outer room, she advanced to the interior, where a scene of horror met her view.
