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"Dead! " repeated Sophy, after a pause. "Then was this Mr. Beauchamp really my father or a relative?"
"I think he was Mr. Marlow, dear," said her lover gravely. "No doubt your father intended to feign death to escape Lestrange, but it would seem that he overdid it, and really died. I saw the manager of the Occidental Bank. He informed me that he had received a letter telling him that Beauchamp was dead."