Miss Wynne and Sinfi Lovell are at this moment in Wales, and I write
at once to furnish you with some facts in connection with Miss Wynne
which it is important for you to know before you meet her. I can
imagine your amazement at learning that she you have lost so long
has been staying here as my guest. I will tell you all without more
preamble.
One day, some little time after I parted from you in the streets of
London, I chanced to go into Wilderspin's studio, when I found him
in great distress. He told me that the beautiful model who had sat
for his picture 'Faith and Love' had suddenly died. The mother of the
girl had on the previous day been in and told him that her daughter
had died in one of the fits to which at intervals she had been
subject.
Wilderspin, in his eccentric way, had always declared that the
model was not the woman's daughter. He did not think her, as I did,
to have been kidnapped; he believed her to be not a creature of flesh
and blood at all, but a spiritual body sent from heaven by his mother
in order that he might use her as a model.
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