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I tell you?’
‘Yes, yes.’
‘Will you promise to keep the confession which you have
heard secret, until we have left England?’
‘I promise anything. In God’s name, woman, if you have
a woman’s heart, speak! Where is my son?’
Sarah Purfoy rose over the enemy who had defeated her,
and said in level, deliberate accents, ‘They call him Rufus
Dawes. He is a convict at Norfolk Island, transported for
life for the murder which you have heard my husband con-
fess to having committed—Ah!——‘
Lady Devine had fainted.