"I will always forget what this will has said you are. But Heaven will
not let the innocent be wronged, nor the guilty remain unpunished. A
month since, how I wished you were not the heiress of a millionaire!"
"Why did you wish it? Did you think that gold would blacken my heart?"
"No, dear Emily, but it would have been ingratitude in me to win your
love, and thus destroy any other plan your father might have cherished."
"My father never had an avaricious disposition," replied Emily, warmly.
"Far from it; but he might have had some views, in regard to his
daughter, with which I might have interfered."
"But you were a rebel against his views, notwithstanding," said Emily,
with a smile, and a deep blush, which the darkness concealed from Henry.
"I should have been sorry to have heard you say so, then; but now,
Heaven bless you for the words!" replied Henry, with a warm pressure of
the hand.
[Illustration: Hatchie and Henry rescuing Emily from the Mississippi.
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"Madam," said Jaspar, who had stealthily approached, without the
knowledge of the lovers, "to your state-room! Captain Carroll, as the
guardian of this lady, I request your entire withdrawal, in future, from
her society.
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