CHAPTER XVIII.
A NEWSPAPER-CUTTING.
EXTRACT FROM THE "FAYFIELD CHRONICLE."
Our readers will have followed with painful interest, the accounts we have from time to time published of the terrible epidemic which has, during the last two months, carried off most of the inhabitants of the little fishing-harbour adjoining the village of Elveston. The last survivors, numbering twenty-three only, out of a population which, three short months ago, exceeded one hundred and twenty, were removed on Wednesday last, under the authority of the
