The Wingham Times, 1897-02-05, Page 2THE WiNtiiIAM TIMES
MMES FE r.RUARY 5, 18 )7.
THE MYSTERY OF
MK. ARD MRSI PEACOCKE.
quite clear, from his own showing, than
the young lady gave hien no encourage*
ate at.
"Such hay.tng boon the case, I do net
tllink that I should have found 11 neces-
Fary to- write 10 you at all hod pot (.ar-
SGniro perseveres with loo till I promised
to do to. lie was willing, ho said, not
to go to 13uwlck on eon(ition that I
'would write to you on the subject, no.
moaning of this is, that. Iiad he not been
very ninon in earnest, 1 bhoulti have c011-
.cdd:lred It boat to let the matter pass on
05 500.1 PM tors (lo, and be forgotten.
lfrr: iso i, wry Much in earnest.
Hu -mayor foolish it is—or perhaps I had
teatrer Fay unusual—that a lad should bo
In love before ha Is twenty, it is, I sup•
pogo, possible. At any rato it seems to
be the easo with hila, aud, he has coulino-
ed his mother that it would bo cruet; to
ignore the fact.
"I may at ono say that, as far AA you
and your girl aro concerned, I should be
quite satiation that ho should clzooso for
hilts )!f such a marriage. I vtlluo rank,
at any roto, all much as It Is worth; but
that ho will have of his own, and does not
need to htrengthen it by internlarriago
with another house of peouliarly old line-
age. As for nionoy, I should not wish
liirn to think of it in marrying. If it
comes,.taut niioux. If not, he will have
enough of his own, I write to you, there -
tore, exactly its I should do it you had
!happened to be a brother peer instead of a
clergyman.
"But I think than long engagements
are very dangerous; and you probably
will agree with me that they are likely to
be more prejudicial to the girl than to the
Tuan. It may bo that, as difficulties
arise in the course of years, he cin forget
the affair, and that she cannot. - Ho has
anany things of which to think; whereas,
.she,porhaps, has only that one. She may
have made that one thing so vital to her
that it cannot be got under and conquer-
ed; tv .. as, without any fauitor heart-
less u itis (irk ocott" tion` as eon•..
q� mirk � �1
enamel it for hint. In- this -case I ;fedi'
that, the engagement, If made, ooiildytots,
but bo long. I should be sorry thtit he
should not thiate his degree. And I (lo
not think it wise to send a lad up to the
university hampered with the serious feel-
ing that he has already betrothed
711msotf.
" A• tell you all just as it is, and I leave
it to your Wisdom to suggest what had
better be done. Ile wished mo to promiso
that I would: tnitlertako to induce you to
telt Miss Wortle sf!1;llla conversation with
Inc. He said oast he -bad a right to do -
*and so ranch" as that, and that, though
be would not for the prosont go to
i3owick, he should write to you. The
yottng gentleman slams to. havo a• will of
his own—which I cannot say that I re-
gret. What yon will do its to the young
'lady—whether you will or will not telt
her what I have written—I must 10avo to
yourself. If you •do, .I nut to send word
to her from Lady l3raey to say that she
will bo delighted to goo her hero. She
had bettor, howover, colpo when tbat
fiaratmatary young goutlornan shall be at
Oxford --Yours very fulthfully,
"D31iAC 1'."
This letter certainly did a great deal to
invlgoratu the Doctor and to console him
01 his troubles. I'lven though the debat-
ed marriage might prove to be impossi .10,
as it had been declared by tiro voices of
all tho Wattles, one after another, still
there was something in the tone in which
ht -•wets ,411soussed by the young roan's
father which was in itself a relief. Thom
wits, :tt any rate, no contempt in the lot-
to=." "I may at once say that, as far as
you and your girl rise concerned, I should
1s 'very well pleased." That, at any
fate; 'vias satisfactory. And the more ho
locked at it the less he thought that It
need -be altogether inrposslblo. Il: Lord
Bogey: liked ;t and Lady 13raa
lil.l. l It—
alia-
--
t
a s '
n 1 :young g La latnirs, as to whose liking
there seeanetl to be no reason for any
doubt-••hn eeielo
h t sea why it should he
impossible.to
As Mary—ho could not con •
.P9
°
delve that she should make objections If all
N. the others
more . a rendHow id she
g t s ho ti
- possibly fail to love the young man if on -
donated to do so? Suitors who aro
goaiti-looking, rich, of high rank,
cat -tempered, . °rad
sw andalso,at the
P
Fane time thoroughly devoted, are not
wont to be disenrde(t. All tl.e difficulty
lay in tho lad'a youth. After all, flow
tunny noblemen hive lane well In the
world without taking to dogrektt Liagrecs
too,
have 1/3101.1 t en by
]ar ledr
en.
And, amity., young men have boon per-
aletent before now, even to tho extent of
waiting throw year?. Long engagements
aro bads -no doubt. Everybody has al-
ways srti(1 s0. But a long enttagetn001
Inay bo better than Mina at all.
Ile anion motto up his mind that he
'Would speak to]lary; but ho determined
at last tient its would consult bis wife
first Consulting AIrs. Wortle, on his
part, genornity ttmouuteti to 110 mow than
instructing her. He found it sometimes
neeess,try to tank her over, as be had (10uo
in that matter of visiting Mrs, 1'0acoek01
but when he set himself to work ho rarely
tailed. She had nowhere cite to g() for
rennin foundation and support, There-
fore be hardly doubted much when h5 bot
qan his operation shoat this suggested
engagement.
"1 have got that letter this morning
front Lord Bracy," he said, handing the
her document.
"Oh dear! has he heard about Car-
stairsO"
"You had better read it."
"He has told it all !" she exolatined,
'When she had finished the first sentence.
".Se luta toil] it alt certainly. But you
had: better resit tho letter through." .
Then she seated herself and read it, al-
most trembling, however, as sho want on
with k "Ott dowt t•• -that IS very Islet
Whittle hti says alma you and Mary,"
".ht Its al.l_vorf' nice as far es that goofs..
Theta Is u0 reason why it should not be
Itloo." -
"lt might have made 111211 80 aLugry 1"
'triton 110 would have been very uurea-
110ttable."
"Ile ncknowinttges that Mary did not
encourage hitll,"
"Of course Niro diel not encourage him. I
IIo would havo Leu very uolii.o a gen-
thot had he thought so. But in truth, 1
lay dear it is it very good letter. Of coarse 1
thorn WV difficulties.''
"Uh'-.it 15 impossible 1"
u
I do not Neo that at all. It must rust ,
very 11111011 '01111 hint, 310 doubt— with
(arstairs; anal do not like to think that
Our girlie, happiness should depend of
any yottll'g man's constancy. Pint such
dangers have to beoncottnteretl, You and
I
wero engaged for titre° years boforo wo
were monied, and Wo ilio not find it so
very bad,"
was 90ro good. Oh, I was so happy
Al the titre!"
"JinPei £r tht,n you've noon slum?"
"Well, I don't know, It W115 very Woo
to know that you ivory toy lover. "
"Why shouldn't Mary think it very 1
nlce to have a lover?" 1
"But I k:.ew that you. would be
true."
"Why shouldn't Carstairs beIrmo 1"
pupil t I Was very sexy] when he spoke
to me."
"Ali that is past and gone. The
(]anger is that snob an ongago[nenG'i'couid
bo long."
"Nair long."
"You would be Ovoid of that, Siaryk"'
Nary felt that this was liar 1 upon hor,
and unfair. Were alto to sae that the
(]anger of a lotto engagement dict not
seem to her to bo very torr11/10, sho would
At once be giving up everythlug. She
tomtit' have declared then that sho (lid
love the young roan; or, at any rate, that
she intended to do so. She would have
suconnzbed at the first flint that such
suoculubing was possible to her. .And
yet oho had not known that sho was very
much afraid of a Iong ougagnmont, Sbe
would, she thought, havo been iuuoit
utero afraitl had a speedy nmarring° been
proposed to her. Upon the whole she did
not know whothcr it would, not bo nine
to go on knowing that the young luau
lovnd hor, and to rest aeon* in hor faith
in dr. She was sure of this --that the
reading of Ford Brnoy's totter had in
some way •nlacle her happy, though she
-vats imwiIlinat at once to eopress ltpr hap-
piness to hor father. tSbo was quite taro
that sho oauld make no immo(litito reply
• to that question, whether she was ntraici
of t► long engagement "I utast answer
Lord Braoy's lotted, you know," Fah' the
Doctor.
''Yes, papa."
"Ana what shall 1 say to him?"
"I don't know, papa."
"Anel yet yon must toll ine what to
say, my darling."
"Must 1, papa?"
"( ortainty! Who olds cant toll inei But
I will not answer it to -tiny. I will put it
off till Monday. It was Saturday morning
on.wllioh tile letter wns being 411s011ssoci—
a clay of which a oonsiderablo potion was
generally appropriated to the preparation
of n sermon. "In the, meantime you had
Dotter talk to mtnnmaa; and on 'Monday
wo will settle what is to be said to Lord
Bratty."
"Remember he is so young. You were
in °rtiers."
"I don't know that I was at ail more
likely to bo true on that account, A
clergyman can jilt a girl just as Weil ns
nno1hor. It depends on the nature of the
man."
"And you were so good. "
"I never moo across a better youth
than earste4rs. Yon see what his father
says about this having a will of his own.
When a young nniu shows a purpose'.of
that kine] he generally sticks to it."
'1'ha upshot of. it wits that Nary was to
be told, and that hor father was to tell
11or.
"Yes papa, he did come," she said, "I
told mamma all. about it."
:h -»And she told mo of course. You did
what was quite right, and 1 should not
lta' boughtit necessary to spoak to you
had not Lord l3raey written to me."
"Lord Bracy hag written 1" said Nary.
It seethed to bor, as it bad done to her
mother, that Lord Bracy thirst have
written angrily; but thbugh she thought
so, she plucked up her spirit gallantly,
tolling herself that though Lord Bracy
might be angry with his own Ron, he
eould have no cause to be displeased -with
her..
" Yes ;.I have rend a ]otter which :•you
shall road. The young roan seems to be
very much in earnest." •
"1 don't tuna, said Illary, -with soiree
little exultation at.horheart. •
"1t seems but the other day that ho
was a boy, and now he has suddenly be-
come a man." To this Mary said nothing
but she had also c01n0 to the uonolusion
that, in this respect, Lord Carstairs hati
lately ohangod,—very nttieh for the bet-
ter. ' "Do you like Mtn, Mary?"
"Like Mini, papa?"
"Welt, 311y darling, ]row iuu I to put it?
Bois so nitwit In earnest that lie has got
his tabor to write to nee. He was cor-
ing over himself again before lie wont to
Oxford; but ho kid his father what bo
was going to do, and the Earl stopped
hint. There's the litter, and' 7011 311117
read it "
Mary read the letter, taking herself
apart to a corner of the room, and seem •
ed to her father to tako a long time in
reading it But there Was very much on
which she orals crt11ot1 upon to shako tap
her mind during those few minutes. Up
U h tit time—up } moment in
t the poison; t1 to it to t l tt
F P
4
which her father had now stinlntonod her .
Into his study, she had resolved that It
was "impossible." She, had 00003120 so'
cloar on the subject that she would not
ask herself trio question -v11ether sho
coult love Hut vofng 11 Would it
not be wrong to love ilia ,young Haan?
Would it not be a longing for the top
brick of the chimney, W111131/lien sho ought
to know was 001 of her reach? So she
had decided 11 ntr i tad her ad
a1 ( a therefore oforo sire
y
taught herself to regard the declaration
made to hor as the ebullition of a young
man's folly. But not tbo less had she
known how groat had boon the
thing
suggested to her, —bow glorious was this
ick of the chimney; and topbrick as t to
0 0
Y,
youngnum 211m5011' she could not but
feel Out, ltd matters been different, she
might have loved 111113. NOW there had
come 0 sudden chango; but sho did 1108
at all know how far sho alight go to
meet the change nor whet tho change al-
together meant. She had Deet inane sure
by bar father's question that he had
taught 1i1nis;if to hopo. Ile would not
have asked Let whether she liked hint --
would not, at any late, havo asked that
. question in that voice—had he not ]leen
prepared to 0e good to her hail she
answered in the affirmative. 13ttt then
this matter tldd not depend upon her
father's wishes—or oven bor fatru'r'a
judgment. It Was necessary that, before
she saliel another word, sho should find
out what Lord l3raey sold about 11. •'Then
she bad Lord Ilr'aey's letter in leer hand,
but her mind was so disturbed that she
Hardly kneW Item to read it aright at the
spur of the moment.
"You understand what he says,
diary? '
"I think so, papa."
"It is a very hired letter."
"Very kind indeed. 1 should have
thought that 130 weallei not have ilk d
° it
t
at all"
"Ifo )naked 1142 °Wootton of that hunt.
To tell the truth, Slaty, I should have
thought it unreasonable had hn done so
A get,tien►an can do no better that
nary; a lady. And though It is much to
tin as ttoblelnnn, it is mare to be ra tfent:n-
mnn."
"Some l,e.)plo think sat inuoh or It.
And then his having boon halm as 11
CHAPTER XXL—AT CHICAGO.
Mr. Pct►ooeke went on adeno to San
Francisco from 1 do Otlgon Junction, and
thorn obtained full information on the
matter which had brought him upon this
long and dtsagrooggIte journey. IIo had
no difficulty in o Ining tiro evidence
roquirod, Hu hail►ot been twenty-four
boors in the pines before 110 we.••, i31 truth,
standing on the Ftone which had been•
plaaoed over the body of kordlnaud Low
troy, as he had declared to Robert Letroy
that he would stand before ho would be
satisfied. On the stone woo out simply
the mottos Ferdinand Lofroy of 1':tlbraok,
Louisiana; and to these wero added the
dater of the days on whit* the man ]lid
been born and on which he died.- • Of this
t;tonolitttliad a photograph sande of which
the took copies with him; •and ho obtain-
ed also front the minister who had burled
tho botly,andfrotn the custodian who had
charge of the oometcrv, certificates of the
interment. Armed with tltes0 ho could
no longer doubt bimsolf, or l.uppose that
others would doubt, that Ferdinand Le-
froy was dead.
l]aaving. thus perfected his object, and
feeling little interest 111 n town to which
he had been brought by rnch painful cir-
cumstances, Ile turned round, and on the
second day after his arrival, again starte(t
for Chicago. Had _ it boon possible, he
would fain have avoided any further
inet+thin with Robert Lofroy. Short 0s
hail' been 1de stay in Slut Francisco, 11e
had,loarnt that Hobert, after his lzrotherm
dontli, litid been concerned in buying min-
ing shares and paying for thein with
forged notes. I1•wns•not supposed that he
himself had been engaged• in ilio forgery,
but that ho had oornc into rho city with,
mon who had boon employed for years on
this operation, and had bought shares,
and endeavored to sell them on the fol•
lotring• day. Ho had, hatvevet., managed
to soave the place before, tbo polige had
got hold o: him, and had escaped, so that
no one had boon able to say at what ata-
ion lie hardgot
Gupon tho rmfl�ta •ver
7
diel any ono in San Francisco know whore
Robert Lofroy was now to be found. Ills
companions bad boon taken, tried, and
eonrict.ud, and were now in the state
prison—whoro also would Hobert Letroy
soon Ito if any of thet
officers of the state
couldt
qct hold of hint. Luckily Alt•,
Peacock° had saki little or nothing of tho
elan in m kn
Ins own enquiries. Muchh
as he had and Jutted drea(Fod themar 3
,
much .teh 119 1h ]h 6 `
e had urTore from hf
d n s clear
panfonship—good r0asou its Ile I1Rc1 to dis-
like tho whole family --ho felt himself
bound by their Into companionship not to
betray hhm. Tho man bad assisted ALr. .
I en calt0 sin '
0 1 for
'money, but it
t t st 1 he
n y Y,
bad n Nis: i
s ed him.lilt 1 . Pet nodi there,
t
Toro 1101(1 his ihe peace 1( s
neo 11)1 said na
i til.
g
But bo would have been thankful to have
been ab',0 to sand the money now duo to'
thin) 'without having again to see hits;
but that wart in n sib
ioM
On ronchlug Chicago he Went to an
hotel not far removed from that which
Lotto)/ }tail designated. Lefty pati ex-
plained to hint something of the geogra-
phy of the town mot bad at'arrect that for
icimself ho preferred( a "molest, quint
hotel," Tho modest, eliliot hotel was call
ed Mrs.Jones's hoarding -hood), and was In
one of the suburbs far front tho main
Meet. "Yost needn't say as you're tom-
ing to oto," Lofroy had said to him;
"nor need you let on as you know ((31y -
thing of Airs. Tones at all People are to
curious and it may be that a ghtlticntan
sometimes likes to lie 'portico.' Air
Peacocko, although ho 1)011 1)1at small
synipalthy for the tasto of a gontienhnn
who likes to lie "perdoo," nevertheless
did e.6 he was bid, and found his way to
hits. Jtnes'a hoarding-bouso without tell -
ink
anyone whither ho was -going.
Before ho started ho prepnred himself
With n thousand dollars In batik•notes,
feeling that this wretched man Ilnd 0t(rn-
ed then 1)1-
7 nCCOrdnneewi h t their it
re emu -
pact. Itis only (lesite now mons to hand
over the money as quickly as possible,
tants to hurry moots out of Chieng°. Ile
felt os though ho 011116011 uteri almost
guilty of tome erimu in having to deal
With this m1tn, iia having to give hien
money secretly, and in coiling out to
the end an arrangement of whish no one
else was to know tho stetsons. Haw Would
it be with )IIJn if the notice of Chicago
tillout(t °ante upon him as a friend and
probably
an a000niplioe, of one wit° was
"wanted" on aeonnlit of forgery at San
Fiauoisoo? But ho hod no help for Mut-
at Mond at tilts -Jones's hu found his who's
brother-in-law seated in tbo bar of the
publio house—that ovorlLstiug resort for
Ainaricnn lonugors--w1th r1 ci;;nr as use-
al stook in Ills mouth, loafing away his
time as 0I11y American frequenters of
stlwh astablIsllmonts know how to do III
i'ingituRi. choir 0 elan would probably bo
fon)Ict in such a pinco with a glass of Remo
a'coholio Inisturo besido him ; but such is
novor the ease with an American. it he
wants a drink Ln gibes to the bar and
takes it standings -will perhaps take two
or
three..ono niter nnnther; but witou he
hos settled himself down to loaf, he satis-
ites hirusolf with chewing a cigar, and
covering a cirolo around him with too ra-
ttails. With this n nasoment he will re-
main contented hour after hour; nay„
throughout the entire day, if no harder
wort: be demanded of tilts. So was Robert
Lofroy fount,. now. When Peacock° enter-
ed the hall or room, rho roan and not
rise from his chair. hitt a000stod Mino as
though. they hod- partod only on hour
since, "So, old follow, you've ,got hack
allve?'' •
"Thaw rottobed•this p'aco, at any mtg..'
"Won, that's grating back, ain't it?"
"I have Come boot: from San Fran-
cisco,"
exclaimed Lofroy; Ioaklug
round tho room, in which however, there
was no one hut thonlselt'es. "You needn't
toll.evory body whore you've been."
"I have nothing to conchal,"
"'That's more than anybody knows of
himself. It's agootl maxim to keep your
own affairs quint till they're wonted, In
this country overybody is spry enough to
learn all about everything. I never see
any good. in lotting then] know without a
reason. Well; what did you do when you
got Chore?"
"It was alt as you told oto."
"Didn't I stay so? What was the good
of bringing me all this way, when, if
you'd only bots:ietl me, you might have
savod ma the trouble? ,Ain't.I to,be paid
for that?"
"You are to bo paid. ..I have come here
to pay you."
"'That's what you owe for the knowl-
edge. But for coining? . Ain'tI to be paid
extra for the journeyt"
"You aro to have a, thousand dollars, '
"H'slil-•-yon speak of money as though
°very one has a. business to know that
you havo got your pockets full *What's
:0 'thousand dollars seeing all that, I have
done for you?"
"It's all that you're going to got. • •It's
all. indeed, that I have got to give you."
1'(,tntnlori:',,
"It's ail,' at cup Atter that you're going
to got. Will you have it now?"
"You found ,the tomb, did yon?"
" Yes; 1 found the tomb. Here Is a
pbotograph of it. You can keep a °opt if
you ilko 3t," . -
"What do I want of a copy?" said the
man, taking the photograph In his hand.
"He was 0iwoys more trouble than ho
was worth—was ]Perdy. It': a pity sho
didn't Marry mo. I'd 'vo rondo a woman
of her." Pea:oake shuddered as he heard
this, blit' ha said notating. "You may
as well 'give us the Meter, it'll do to
hang up somewhere If ever I have a room
of my own. How plain it is 1 Ferdinand
Lofroy,—of Rai brook 1 Kilbrack indotti l
It's little either of us_was the bettor for
Iiilbrack. Sonic of thein psalm-sit:a t'g
rogues from Now England has it now;
or perhaps a right -down nigger. I
shouldn't wonder. One of our own lot,
maybal Oh; that's the money is it? --A
thousand dollars; alt that I'm to have for
coining to England and telling you and
bringing' you back, .and showing you
where you could get this pretty piotor
made." Thou he took thio trolley, a thick
roll of notes, and crammed thorn into his
pnoi:ot.
"'You'd bettor count them."
"'It ain't worthy the while with suoh a
trifio as that."
"Lot me want thorn ,
c n tJ o then."
"You'll never havo thatut r
l
p ut a in
your fists again, nay tine fellow."
"I do not want it."
"And now about my expensos out to
England on purpose to toll you ail this.
Yotcan n o and make h io
your wife no
w
—or leave her, just Os you. piens°. You
couldn't have done oither if I hadn't gone
out,
to you
"You ha
vo6 of ghat was L) • 3
tot used.
„
"Bub my expenses—going out?"
"I itavo promised you nothing for your
expenses going out—and will pay you
nothing," woo .-. •.
"You won't?'*`
"Not dollar £ a doI n m0 r5.
"Yon won't?"
"Certainly 1
n not. d I
I o tot suppose 0
7s iL you
expect it for a moment although you aro
so persistent in asking me for it."
"And you think you've got the better
of ma do?
you You think you've carried
1115. along with you just to do your bid-
ding and take whatever you please to
giVo rue? That's your idea of me?"
"There was a clear bargain between
us. I have not got the bettor of you at
all."
"I rather think not, Peacock°. I ratihar
think not. You'll havo to get up cattier
before you get the bettor of Robert Lo-
froy. You don't expect to get this money
hack again—do you?"
"Cortainly not, any more than 1 should
expect a potted of stoat out of a dolt's
A1r, Pencocko, as ho said this was
\vaxln(f angry.
"I don't sUpposb you do; but you tot -
meted that I was to earn it by doing your
bidding; didn't you?"
"And you have."
"Yell, I havo; but how? Yon novor
heard at my cousin, did you—I'erdi)nlnd
Letroy, of Kilbraok, Louisiana?"
"Bead of \vhoni?"
"93y cousin, ]1'orditutn4 Letroy. No eras
ver tc hl known n owl !Il Ids own ill andin
7 � at
(t,
Ca rn
ilio ]nti 1 Oo t t
t ] t c (Rod. Ile t as a need
fellow. but given to drink. Wo mod to
tell him that it ho -would marry it Would
bo hottor for hint; bat be never would;
ho newt did," Robert Lofroy as he said
Gila put his left Rand into his trousors
pooket ever the notes which he Mut placed
theta, and drow n snhmtl revolver out at
his pocket with *mother hand. "1 am
hotter propilrud now," ho sold. "than
when you had your six-shooter uiitior
your pillow ab Leavnworth,"
"I do not believe a word Of it. Ws a
lio," sold Pea000ke,
"Very well. You're a chap that's fond l
of travailing and have got pionty at
money. Yott'd better go duwn to Ieouisl*
ane and incite your way straight trout
New Orleans to lalbraok. It ain't above
forty miles to the south-wost, turd there's
o rail goos within fifteen miles- of it.
You'll learn there 011 about Ferdinand
Lofroy as was our cousin—hint as nover
got married up to the slay ho d10d of
drink and was buried at San .1,*ranolsoo.
'.they'll bo very glad, I shouldn't wander,
to too that pretty little plater of yours,
bacons° Choy was alwaye uncommon fond
of cousin 1"ordy at gilbraok. And I'll
Oil you what, you'll bo sure to come
acrass my brother- Portly in thorn parts
unci can toll lhtul 011 the latest ; nows,
too, about- his own wife. 1le'll
bo glmet to boar about her, poor woman."
Mr. Potts:mato listented to tide without
sayitg a word since that last exclamation
of his. It might bo true? Why should it
not be Irtto? If in truth there had bee»
these two cousins of the same n0nle.
what could be 11101'2 likoly than that ]tis
i tootooshould have boon lured out of hint
by suoh 0 ft•antl ms tilts'? DUG yet—yet, ala
110 ('111110 80 think of it a11, it could not be
toile. The chanco of envying such n
eehonl° to a sued:, qui lssthu would have
been too stnnll to induce rho many to not
upon i*,'fronl the Clay of h1s 11451 appear -
and) at Boo isk. Nor was it probable
that there should havo boon another Fer-
dinand Leroy unknown to lets wife; and
the existonco of such a one, IT known to
hies wife), would cortainiy havo boo made
known to hila.
"It's a lie," said he, "from beginning
to rad."
• '"gory well; very well. I'll take corp
to inako the truth known by letter- to Di';
Wortle and the Bishop and all the pinup
swells 'over there. '1'r 'think of suoh 0
tamp as you, a minister of the Gospel,
living . with .atno1llo; main's wife, and
looking its though bn'ter wouldn't molt
in your mouth 1 1 toll you what. I've
gut a little money in my poonet naw,nu(l
1 don't mind gain;; over to hingh£idngain
and i-x1ilaining the wholo truth to the
Bishop myself, I could motto hint undor-
stand,bow that photograph ain't tvorth
nothing, and how 1. explained to you
myself as the Indy 'srigbtumt< 10sbatl1 is
ail oliva, keeping house on 1.1s own prop-
erty down in L•)nishnnn. ])o you think
wo Lefroys hadn't 0ny pities hosid,s Ril-
braen among lis;'"
"Uortalnly you aro a liar," said Pea-
cocke, -
'" Vere well, prove it."
"Dia you not toll mo that your brother
was buried iit•Ssin 1" ranotsuo?"
'"Oh, at tor, that, that don't matter. It
don't count for much whether I cold a
crammer or not; that motor moults for
nothing. It ain't m17 Worst •you was go
tot; oil 55 evidence. You is abs, to prove
that eerily Lofroy was buried at 'Vegeta),
Trice enough. I buried hint, I cntt prove
that. And 1 would n(vur have trusted you
this way, and not hove) said a word its to
• how tho dead 011111 was only a cousin, if
you treated uta civil over there in Eng-
land. •13ut yon eli.1n't." -
"I ren( going to treat you worse now,"
said i?uaoacku, looking him in 00 Moe.
"Wow, are you g.tlat to (lo now? Lt's 1
that have the rovolvur 'this time." As
Ito sat 1 this ho tttra.ld the Weapon round
In his•hand..
"I don't want to shoot you --nor yet to
-frighton you, 03 I did in the be •u at
Leavenworth;—not but. what I have
pistol too." And he slowly e •ew Lis out
of his pucka. At this loom un tw 3 m
sauntered in and took their ,laces t lie
further ucrner of thio roo 1. " ' ( n't
think there Is to bunny all. ting 'ti-een
us."
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"Tho pollee would hay t on."
"So they wootd.--for10, \Vhnt Gose
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pr'iect himself tv1u ' chow like you
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Frn»cisc, eight 111011 tilts ago. 1)o yo.l
think it wools, r bo fount] mit that, it
was you who paid for the shares iu forged
note..? '
"1 never did. That's ono of your lies."
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P i of the re. wts walk.
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over
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"Wo area -looking n ookiu at
fi 'em," said Lo -
fray.
• "1t you'll° a -going to do anything of
that kind you'd bjttor go And clo it else -
r9
whero," said the stranger,
"Just so," st11(1 Letroy. "That's what
I was tIlan king mysotf."
"But wo arc not going to do any-
thing," said illy. i'arctuke. "I hat•a not
the slightest idea of shouting the gentle-
man; and ae has just as llttlu of shoot-
ing nat."
'Then what (lo you sit with 'oral out
in your flaunts in that fasidon for?" sold
the stranger. "It's a docent widow wo)11011
thr•t koaps this hottsa and 1 w;t11't 800
her sot upon. Put 'oto up." W11oraupotl
•Lofroy Ohl return leis pistol to his pooket
—upon -which Mr.Pon000ko did the stun°.
Then the stranger walked slowly back to
the °Chet,sitie of the room.
"So they told 7011 tlt1t Ile—diet they--
tat'b'risoo?"asked. Lofroy.
"That was what I hoard over there
when I Wits ibgltiriug about 7001
brother's death." "
"You'd boliove anything if you'd be -
novo that,"
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but node no further allusion to the ro
n1at1Co which ho had craftily invented on
the spur bf the Inolnent. Afton that the
two reit sat without a word batwoen
thorn for a quarter of an hour, when the
Englishman got up to take his leave,
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