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Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it

was ten months before my father discovered his abode. Overjoyed

at this discovery, he hastened to the house, which was situated

in a mean street near the Reuss. But when he entered, misery and

despair alone welcomed him. Beaufort had saved but a very small

sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was

sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in

the meantime he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a

merchant's house. The interval was, consequently, spent in

inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he

had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of

his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of

sickness, incapable of any exertion.