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"Lincoln's Inn Fields, June 2d.
"MADAM--MY only connection with Mrs. Noel Vanstone was a professional
one, and that connection is now at an end. I am not acquainted with any
of her friends; and I cannot undertake to interfere personally, either
with her present or future proceedings.
"Regretting my inability to afford you any assistance, I remain, your
obedient servant,
"JOHN LOSCOMBE."
THE LAST SCENE.
AARON'S BUILDINGS
CHAPTER I.
ON the seventh of June, the owners of the merchantman _Deliverance_
received news that the ship had touched at Plymouth to land passengers,
and had then continued her homeward voyage to the Port of London. Five
days later, the vessel was in the river, and was towed into the East
India Docks.
Having transacted the business on shore for which he was personally
responsible, Captain Kirke made the necessary arrangements, by
letter, for visiting his brother-in-law's parsonage in Suffolk, on the
seventeenth of the month. As usual in such cases, he received a list of
commissions to execute for his sister on the day before he left London.
One of these commissions took him into the neighborhood of Camden Town.
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