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He could only thank God for his friend 's preservation , and pray that he might be able to go to Clara Talboys , and say , `` Your brother still lives , and has been found . '' Phoebe came up-stairs at eight o'clock , ready to take her place at the sick-bed , and Robert Audley went away , to get a bed at the Sun Inn . It was nearly dusk when he awoke out of a long dreamless slumber , and dressed himself before dining in the little sitting-room , in which he and George had sat together a few months before . The landlord waited upon him at dinner , and told him that Luke Marks had died at five o'clock that afternoon . `` He went off rather sudden like , '' the man said , `` but very quiet . '' Robert Audley wrote a long letter that evening , addressed to Madame Taylor , care of Monsieur Val , Villebrumeuse ; a long letter in which he told the wretched woman who had borne so many names , and was to bear a false one for the rest of her life , the story that the dying man had told him . `` It may be some comfort to her to hear that her husband did not perish in his youth by her wicked hand , '' he thought , `` if her selfish soul can hold any sentiment of pity or sorrow for others . ''