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Later she had heard that O'Hara had escaped through a window , and that her father was raving below in a sort of fit : for Frankl supposed that O'Hara had the jewels , as O'Hara that Frankl had them ; and after tending her father , she had dashed out to the _ rendezvous _ , the jewels then in her room . As for Hogarth , he did not neglect her warning : and , having left a note for O'Hara , telling him where to find him , at Loveday 's , took a late train southwards . By what marvel Rebekah had become possessed of the jewels he did not even seek to fathom ; but one of his uppermost feelings was shame for having suspected O'Hara of stealing them : and for years could never be got to believe in the bad faith of the prelate , his tutor . Near midnight , on reaching the obscure townlet of Hadston , he there took a bed -- not to sleep . At the tiny inn-window he made periodic arrivals , looked out unseeing at a cart , a wall of flint and Flemish brick , and a moonlit country , then weighed anchor , and swerved away on another voyage ; then arrived anew , looked out , saw nothing , and weighed . He walked now in the dark of the valley of humiliation , with those words written in flame in his brain : `` This is my favoured lot -- my exaltation to afflictions high '' : he had allowed a woman to say them to him , and he went `` _ I ! _ '' He , the richest of men , was , therefore , that night poorer than any wretch , brought right down , naked , exposed to death , and he filled that chamber with his moans : `` God have mercy upon me !