opened,
and the
Colonel
found
himself in
the arms
of his
daughter,
who had
landed a
few
minutes
before
him. The
first
transport
of meeting
subsided,
Crayton
introduced
his
daughter
to
Mademoiselle
La Rue, as
an old
friend of
her
mother's,
(for the
artful
French
woman had
really
made it
appear to
the
credulous
Colonel
that she
was in the
same
convent
with his
first
wife, and,
though
much
younger,
had
