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"Orlr business 15 over 110W," 110 sail,
and I Will bid you good -by."
I it tell y011 what I'm a -thinking,
(Mid Lefroy. 111r. Peacooka stood with
his hand ready for a final a:liou, but bo
said nothing. "I've half a 2uin.i to go
baclsw with you to England, Thera ain't
nothing to keep me Moro."
"WI2at could you do there?"
"I'd be evidence for you-•-asto l+erdy's
death, you know," •
"I have evidence.. I don't waut you."
go, nevertheless."
"Anel 5pond all 70111 money; on the
journey."
"You'd llolp;--wouldn't you, now?"
"Nota dollar," said i?eacocke,turning
away and leaving. the room. As he dict
50 110 Hear.' 1110 wretch laughing at the
excellence of Ills own joke.
Before 110 made his journey back again
to Englund, lie only once more saw Rob-
ert Lefroy. As ho was seating himself -
in the railway car that was to Dike hilt
to Buffalo the elan tonne up to him with
an affected look of solicitude. "Pea•
.eocke," ho said, "thorn was only nine
hundred dollars in that roll."
. ((Thorn ware a thousand. I counted
them half an hour before I handed them
to you."
"]'hero was only nine hundred when I
got 'elm" .
"Thera were all that you will got.
What kind of notes wero they you had
when you paid for the shares at.'Fristo?"
This question be asked out loud, before
all the passengers. Then Robert Lofroy,
left rho car, and Mrs. Peacock°- never
saw shim, or heard from him again.
CHAPTER XXII.-THP DOCTOR'S
ANSWER.
When the Monday tante thorn was
much to be done and to be thought of at
Bowick. Mrs. Peacock° on that day re.
ceived a letter from San Francisco, giving
hor oil the details of the evidence that her
husband had obtained, and enclosing a
copy of the photograph, There was now
110 reason why she should not become
the true and honest wife of the lean
whom ,she had all along regarded as her
husband in the sight of God. The writer
declared that he would so quickly folio r
his letter that he might be expected home
within a week, or at the longost, tan
days front the date at watch she would
receive. it Immediately on his arrival at
Liverpool, ho would, of course, give her
notice by telegraph.
When this !atter reached her, sho at
once sent a message across to Mrs. Wortie.
Would Mrs. Wortle kindly conte and see-
hor? Mrs. Wi rtie was, of course, bound'
to do as she was asked, and started at
once. But she was, in truth, but little
able to give counsel on any snbjoct out-
sido the one whichwas at the nu -intent
nearest to her heart. At anti o'olobk,
when the boys went to their dinner, -Mary
was to instruct her father as to the pur-
port of the letter which was to be sent to
Lord Bracy -and Mary had not as yet
come to any (leeision She could not go
to her father for aid; she could not, at
any rate, go to •lliin 1213ti1 the appointed
hotir should:come; and she was therefore
entirely thrown upon her mother. Had
she been old. enough to understand the
effort and the power of character, she
would Iiavo known that, at the last mo-
ment, her father would certainly decide
for her -and had her experience of the
world been greater she (night havo been
quite surd that her father wooed decide in
her favor. But as it was, she was quiver-
ing ltntt shaking in tho dark, leaning of
her mother's very inefficient aid, nearly
overcome with the fooling that by one
o'clock. she must b •
c, ready to say some-
thing quite deoldod.
And In the midst of this her mother
was taken away from her, just at ten
o'clock. There was not, in truth, much
that the two ladies could say to each other.
Mrs Peaco, ko • felt It to bo nocass'lry to
let the !)onto: know that Mr. Peaoocke
would bo hack almost at once, and took
this moans of doing so, "In a wok!"
said Mrs Worts). a8 though paintnily
surprised by the suddenness of the coning
Arris al
"In a work or ton days. He is to fol-
low his Jotter as gniokly as possible ,from
San Francisco."
"And lie Maas fooihtl 11 all out?"
"Yes, fro has learned everything, I
thin , Look atthisl ' And Mrs. Peacocke
handed to Ler friend the photograph of
the tombstone.
"J)ear Int!" saki Mrs Wortle. "Ferdin-
and Lefroy! And this was his grave?"
"That is his grave," said Mrs. Peacocks,
turning Isar fare away.
"It is very sad; very sad indeod--but
you lead to learn it, you know."
"It toil' itot bo said for slim. I hop°, said.
Mrs Peacockc, "In all this 1 endc.tvor to
think of slimrather thou of myself, \Chan
I am forced to think of I11yeelf it seems to
ilio that my lifo has ilootn so hlightod and
destroyed till; it moot; bo in(11fie1'ont what
happens t) 1110 13:)W. Whet 11:14 llapptsnel
10 1110 h,14 h ell R., i'a11 that I Call hardly
be injured 'iu^the,•. 13u1 if there can be
a good thus 0 .mill!; for 111111--s01ncthitc„
at toast of relief, something perhaps of
comfort -then 1 shalt he satisfied "
"Why should there not bo e011120rt for
you both?"
"I not nilnast 101 dead to bopo as I am
to x11112210. • enat , year or two ago 1 should
htt'ro thought it impossible to bear the
eyes of people looking at Ino, as though
may ••r'. int: I:o-n sinful and irnpuro. 1
aeefn now to earn Nothing for all that. I
can look th . ire flack again with
r n
bold eyes and a brazen face and tell them
that ta.•-ir ha"dn^ss 1e at alio rat° as bad
ata say fmpnrity."
"We hat'° not looked at you like that,"
add Mr.J, Wortlo.
"No; and tllerefet'o I tend to you in
my trouble, and tell you all this. The
strangest thing of all to m° le that 1
should have cone wool Oltt ratan so g°n-
, p EAC i � 0 Fg E ! ""x a+b '1 t• x1:-37 U',1 'li a4•hytl It ," ,
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1 /1�tr halts 7(11, ,)ail a."
"Nor helot) 1. 'fon/ is gutta tt•u' '1
t ave wavy b'rn wont to bo aohn'. 1• . ,•f
on a of-.ulr do I think tirot you ver
havo ran;u • o 1)0 a;h.tnu(J s,11.. 0 .
Therefore•, tt'by :,houta we.110-1t:lte? S n 1
I help you,my darling, in °anll;a_ to a
docirion On tiro mutter?"
T.O.; papa." •
"If I (u113 understand your heart on 111is •
latter, it has'neV°r ti$ y01 boon given to
this-
ed nag man."
"No, papa." with Almy snits not alto-
gother with that complete power of itesor-
vation which the negativeis sometimes
mato to bear.
"But there must bo cF' beginning to
suoh thing,. A than throws hiutsolf into
it betullong-as my Lord Carstairs seems
to have dune. At least all tho best young
leen do," Mary at this point felt a groat
longing to get up and kiss her father;
but she ro;trailiod hera:lf. "A young
woman, on tho other band, if sho is such
US I thiel: you aro, wal,s t111 she is asked.
Then it has to begin." The doctor, as his
suit( this, smtlo.i his swoOtost senile.
„Yos, Iapa."
"And wlion it has begun, sho (loos not
like to blurt i; ont at once, oven to her
loving old father."
".Papa 1"
'"!'lint's about it; isn't it? 'Haven't I
hit it off?" Ho pausod,us though for a re-
ply, but she was not as yet able to motto
]lint any, "Come here, 111y clear." She
enino and stood by bits, so that ho could
put his arm round hor waist, "If it bo
as I suppose, you are better disposed to
this young man thau you aro 1111017 to
bo to any other just at present."
"Oh yes, papa."
'"lo all others you are quite indiffer
ont?"
"Yes, indeed, papa,"
"I am sure you aro. But not quite in-
different to this ono! Give me a kiss, my
darling, and I will take that for your
speech." Then she kissed Mine -giving
him hor vory best kiss. "And now, my
child, what shall I say to the Earl?"
"I don't kuow, papa."
"Nor do I quite. I-novor do know
what to .say till I've got the pen in eny
hand. But you'll 031111105510n 1110 to
write las 1 may think bestP"
"Oh, yes, papa."
"And I may presume that Iknow your
nh111d.''
• "Yes. papa."
'Very well. Timis You had better loam
ine, so that I can go to work with the
paper straight before' neo and my lion fix-
ed in my fingers. I can never begin to
thing till Ifind thyself in that position."
Then she left him and went back to her
mother.
"Well, my dear," said Mrs. Wortle.
"Ho is going to write to Lord Bracy."
"But what does he moan to say. "
"I don't know at all, mamma."
"Not know !'
"I think he means to tell Lord Bratty
that helots got no objection."
Then Mrs. \Vortlo •\vas sure that tho
Doctor 1110/nit to face all tho dangers, and
that therefore it would behove her to face
tbom 11150.
Tho Doctor, when he was left alonO,
sat a while thinking of tho matter before
be put himself into the posit" in itte:l
for composition which he hod dsacribod
to his daughter. Ho aukuowto.iged to
himself that there was n (ii11lCnity in onk-
ing a fit, ropey to the letter which he had
to answer. When his mind was set on
sending an indigual.t epistle to the
Bishop, the words flew out from 111111 like
lightning out of the thunder -clouds. But
310W he had to think much of it beforo
eroti.l 38 yore husband. and 0120 woman
so soft-hearted as yaursolf," 'thee° was
nothing further to bo said then. Airs.
\\'o:t1e was instru(te1 to toll her hnsbann
that Mr. Pcncooke was to bo oxpootctl ill
tone!: of toil Clays, and than hurried book
to it'c *'hat assistauee•she )anti(' 1 .tho
I liiovo important difficulties her
,it iU
W
n
e
c d. �htor
Of course they wore allied 111010 import-
ant to her. Was her girt. to become rho
wife of a young lord -to bo a future
eountoss? Was she destined to be the
moth01-in-law of an earl? Of course this
tons much more important to her. Anti
thole through it all, boing as she was a
dear, good, Christian. motherly woman,
she was well aware that there was some-
thing, in truth, much morn important
than that Though she thought much of
the earl -ship and the ootintoss-ship, and
rho great revenue and the lino park with
its magnificent avenues, and tho carriage
in which hor daughter would bo rolled
about to London parties, and the clIa.
loond5 which sho would woar when she
should be presontotl to the Queen as the
brido of the young Lord Carstairs, got tho
know very well that she ought not in
such an Omorgenoy as the present to think
of these things ns being of primary im-
portance. What would tend Most to her
girl's happiness, and welfare in this world
and the next ? It was of that sho might
to think, of that.only. If some answer
were now returned to Lord Bracy, giving
his lordship to understand that they, tho
Wortley, were anxious to onoonrago the
idea, then in fact hor girl would be tied
to an engagement whether the young lord
should hold himself to be so tied or not
And how would it be with her girl if the
engagonellt should be allowed to run on
in a doubtful way for years and then be
dropped by roason of the young man's in.
difference? How would it be with : or if,
after perhaps three or four years a latter
should come saying that the young lord
had °hanged his mind and had engaged
himself to some nobler bride? Was it not
her duty as a mother to save her child
from the too probable ocourrenoa of some
crushing grief such as this? All this
was clear to her mind; but then it was
clear also that if this opportunity of great-
ness were) thrown away, no suoh chance
in all probability Would ever come again.
Thus she was so tossed to and fro bo-
twton a prospect of glorious prosperity
for her child on one side and the fear of
terrible misfortune for her child on tho
other, that sho was altogether nnablo to
give any salutary advice. She, at any
rate, ought to have known that hor advice
would at last be of no importance. }Ter
experience ought to have told her thatthe
Doctor 'would certainly settle the platter
himself. Had it been her own happinoss
that was in question, her own conduct,
hor own greatness, t;ho Would not have
dreamed ofi having an opinion a lief
own. She would have consulted the
Doctor, and empty have done as he direct-
ed. But all this was for her child, and
in a vague, vooillating way she felt that
for her chill sho ought to bo ready with
counsel of her own.
"Mamma," said Mary, when her•
mother crone back from Mr. Peacock°,
"what am I to say when he sends for me?"
"IP you think that you can lovo him,
my dear—"
"Oh, mamma, you shouldn't ask mel"
"My dear!"
"I do like him, -very much."
"If so---" -•
"But I never thought of it before -and
then, if he -if ho--"
"If ho what, my clear?"
"If he score to change his mind?" i the could make any light to corny which
"Ah, yes; thero it is. It isn't as though •it of lull ici he inteudunot bear aff(Ir�"Of course ..such
you could bo married in throe months' , a marriage wonl(t suit my child, and
Ulna."1 would 5ait the," ho wished to say -"not
ril"Oh, mamma, I shouldn't like that at t only, or not °Molly, booause your son is
"Or even in six."
"Oh, no."
Of course lie is very young." ! -lye hate humbug, and want you to
Yes, mamma.
ut Its. The
"Anel when a1 young 11130 is so vory t nloandow lt to my oney e tgot far -but not half
young, I suppose he doesn't quite know so far as the opinion which wo entertain
his own mind.
"10 mamma, But----" i of the young hn:tn's own good gifts. I
"Well my dear." I would not give my girl tel tho greatest
' and richest nobleman under the British
"His father says that he has got -such
a strong will of his own," said poor Mary, Croton, if I did not think that he would
who was anxious to put in, a good wird lovo her and be good to.. her, glace . treat
on her own side of the question, without her as a husband should treat his wife.
making her own desire too visible. But believing this young Haan to have
good"gifts such as those, anti a find (tis-
positloli, I ant willing, on my girl's be-
half -and she is also'tvilling-to encoun-
ter the acknowledged danger of a long
engttgonlent in the hope of realising all
rho good things which would, if things
Went fortunately, tilos 0on10 within her
roach," This was what -he wanted to say
to the Earl, but no fonnid it vory difficult
to say it in linguage that should be nat-
ural.
"My Dear Lord Bracy,--Whon I learn
e(1, through Mary's mother, that Oar-
51a1r5 heel been hero in our ablelr03 and
made a (leclaratioa Of love to our girl, I
Was, I must oonfesy annoyed. ,. 1 felt, in
Um first plain, that he was too, young to
have taken in hand such a bUSinoSI ("5
that; an(1,i12 the nest,that you !night not
Unnaturally havo boon angry th.nt your
son, who had come hemi simply for tui-
tion, shoull have fallen into a matt or of
love, I imagine that you will tnudorsntnd
oxoetly What were my foolingo. Thera
was, howover, nothing t0 be said about
it. The evil, so far as it was An oval, had
boon done, and Carstairs tons going away
to Orotord, where, possibly, he might for
got tho whole affair, I olid not, at any
ate think it 118 •95� r to Make r c n 1& 11 0o n-
.,Y
I
..lain toou f Ids 1111 1
t e 19&0 1
py g
"To all this 7011r latter leas given alto -
gather a different ("spoof. I think tlint 1
x111 1114 little likely a8 another to spend
my time or thoughts in looking for ex-
ternal ndvantages,but I am as mach alivo
no another tO the groat honor to myself
and advantage to lily 011114 of the mar -
Maga which is suggested to 1101. 1 (10 not
know )'ow any mora secule prospect of
a nobleman and will be ad earl and a
i ratan of great property. That goes a long
I way with us. Wo aro too true to deny it
"Ho always had that.. \Che=1 them was
any game to 1.1(1 played, 1;e always liked
to have Lis own way. But then Jaen like
that are just as likely to °hungo as
of hers."
"Aro they, mamma?"
"But I do think that he is a lace of
very high princ•plo.,t
"Papa tuts always safes that of llim..f°
,"Ari.1 of fino x011010111 foaling. Ito
would not change iiko a wo:ltherc0ck "
"If you think le would change at ail,
I would rather -rather -rather--. 011,
111(1111i111a, why did you tell me?" .
"My darling, 1117 child, my angels
What alit I to toll you? I do drink of all
the young leen I over know he is the
nicest, 1111(1 the sweetest, and the' most
thorottghly good and affectionate."
"011, 1111111111111, tl0 yon?" said Altlry,
rushing to her mother and kissing her
and (.nibraeillg her.
'']:tit if thero were to be no regltini. on -
ort epee t, and 3.011 111010 to let hire have
your heart -and than things were to go
wrong!,"
:clary left the embraoiugs, gave tip the
kissing.., and 8(131811 Jtorself 011 the sofa
alone In 3
I t)ist11the morning V 1 OliJinpastel
7
to
--and when diary was smm11len ci to
her
fa her's study, the mother and clotugl"tor
'tad not arr110c1 between them at any do
"Well,my clear,"' said the doctor, 3)1211•
tiitr, "tvhat am I tO soy to tho pearl?"
"Must you write to«clay, pupa?"
"I think so, His letter is one that
should not bo left longer unansWerei1,
Were too to do so,.ho would think that
iuillpiness would bo opolh to hor than that
211)1011 suoh a 11utrrlago offers, I !moo
thought myself 1)01111(1 to ;rive 1101 your
letter to mot1, becrwso her !wart and het•
imagination have ilaturi 1137 been affected
by what yatlr snit x8111 to her, I think I.
may say of my girl that 110110 SWO0 01.,
nolle more innocent, 120110 10ss 1!koly to
ba poor -anxious for such it pro.Pout 0)ultl
oxiot. Bnt 110t' boort, has Wen touole.t;
awl though she had not tiro:nut of him
but as an acgnctlntitnca tilt lie canto Moro
and told his (Iw31 talo,an(1 though Rho
than altogotleor deollned to entOr.aln his
proposal when it was made, now that
sho lino learnt so much more through
you, site is 110 longer intlifforout, `1'111x,
I think you will find to be natural.
"I and hor mother also aro, of
cours0, alivo to rho (langur) or it long
engtteement,and the more so because your
Son has still before him a considerable
portion of his education, Had he asked
adviuo either of you or of not 11e would, of
oourso, have bean counselled not to think
of ma riago as yet, But the vory passion
which has prompted him to take this
notion upon himself shows -as you your-
self say of him -that he 1118 a htrongor
wilt than is usually to be found 011118
years. As it is so, it is i.robablo that lap
7nay remain constant to this (18 t0 is fixed
idea.
"I think you will now understand my
mind and Mary's and l'or loonier's."
(Lord Braoy as he rend this d001•trn1 to
himself that though tho Doctor's mint.
was vory clear, Mrs Wortie, as far as ho
know, hadno mind in the matter at all)
"I would suggest that the matter should
remain us it is, and that each of the
young peoplo should bo mule to under-
stood that: a1y future ongagolfOnt must
depend, not simply on the persistency of
ono t f thong but on the joint porsistonoy
of the two.
"If, after this, Lady • lrnoy should be
p184130d to receive Mary at Caal'stairs, I
stood only say that Mary will bo delight-
ed to made tho visit. -Believe 1110, en7
dear Lord Bracy, yours most faithfully,
"JEFFREY WORT'LI(1."
Tho Earl when ho road this, though
there was not a word in it to which he
could take exception, was not altogether
pleased. "Of course it will bean engage-
ment"' he said to his' Wife. -
CHAPTER XXIII. -MB. PEA-
COCKE'S3 RETURN.
The Earl's rejoindor to tho Doctor was
vory short; "So let it be." There was
not mother word in the body of the let-
ter; but thorn was appended to it n post•
soript almost equally short. "Lady Bracy
willwrite to Mary and settle with hor
soma period for her vieit." And so it canto
to be 'understood by the Doo or, by Mrs.
Wortle anti by, Mary her5eir that Mary
Was engagod to Lord Carstairs.
The Doctor, having so far arranged the
matter -having, as it 21010, laid a fairly
firm grasp on the thing which had been.
offered to him -said little or nothing
more on the subject, but turned hhs
mind at once to that affair of Mr. and
Mrs, Peacock°. It was evident to :.his
wife, who probably alone understood it e
bLdyaney of iris spirit,aild his correspond-
ing
ing susceptibility to- depression that hof
at onto went about Alr. Poacocke's affairs
with ruuowed •courage. Mr. Peacock°
should resume his duties as soon as he.
w118 remarried, and let them see what
Mrs, Stantiloup or the 131shop would
(taro to say then! It was i.mpossi.blty he
thought, that parents would be such
!MOR 1(5 10 suppose that their boys'
morals would be affected to evil 1)7 con-
nection with 11 man so true, so gallant,
and so manly 88 this. He did not at this
timo say anything farther as to abandon-.
•ing rho school, but soemotl to imagine
that the vaoancios would got themselves
filled up /is in the course of nature. Ile
ate his dinner again ns though he liked
it, and abused the Liberals, and was
anxious about the gr11pe.4 and peaches. as
was always the case 'with hint when
things were going well.All this, ns
Mrs Wattle understood, had cone to hila
from the brilliancy of 3l Iry s p aspects.
Thon Airs. Wortlo would ralrry the doc-
tor's wisdoin to her (laughter. "Papa
says, my dear, that you shouldn't think
of it too much."
"I do thiol: of him, mamma. I do
love him now, and of course 1 tbink of
111'112'0'P
IfhnO. "
f conrs0 you do, my dons -of course
y0(1 (lo. How 811ou1(1 y011 not think of
flim whet) he is all in all to you? But
papa mucus that it can hardly bo called
an engagement yon."
"I don't know what it should ho call-
ed ;last of course - I lovo 111211. Ile can
change it if 110 likes."
"But you shouldn't think of it, know-
ing his rank Mid wealth."
"I novar did, mamma; but he is What
he is, 1111(1 I must think of flim."
Poor Mary herself probably had the
worst of it. Nu provision wile mode either
for her to 810 hor lover or to write to Min,
Tho onlyintorviow Which had over taken
place bewoou them as lovers was that on
which sho had run by 111111 into the house,
leaving, slim, as tiro Earl hail said, plahlt-
od on the terrace. She had never been
ablo to whispor oleo single soft curd in-
to his oar, to give hila even one touch of
her iltgers is tolleln of her. niLtotiotl.
She did not in the toast know when she
alight bo allowod to x00 111111-wh01110r 11
Ilial 1101 boon settled among tiro eldors
that they were 1101 t0 see each other as real
lovers till he should lave takon his do•
greo,-which Would bo alnost In a faturo
world, so ((Want x0111110(1 the time. It
had been already settled tient she was to
go to Carstairs in the initial° of November
and stay till the nidal° of 1)ooembcr; but
it was altogether settled that hor lover
wa8 not to be at Carstairs during the
tilno. Ho was to be at Oxford then, arld
would be thinking Only of his (*cote and
Latin,
or perhaps Rill
t51n llns
f,
In
ut-
for forgetfulness that
he had n heart bo •
longing to hull at 130211811 Paraonago.
Ila this Way Mary, though no doubt sho
thought the most of It all, hsd less oppor-
tunItp of talking of it than Dither her
father or her mother,
x18 rho nteantlnite Mr. 1'eAeo0ke oras
Wining home, 'Ad Doctor, as Ston as
he heard that the day was fixed ---being
then, as has Leon oxplainod, In full good*
humor with all the World oxoopt Mrs.
Stpntiloup snd tho I31silopr-bethought
himself as to what stops alight hest bo
token in the vorytlelinatuanattor in which
o
had Stt vo tr
deala1041 *t first tit tthey5l 5110111(1 be
marrl0d at his own parish (Mundt; but
120 felt that there would be eliiliattlties 10
I \his, "She must go up to London and
.0100t 1111n utero," he said to Mrs, \Woruo.
"And Iia lnust not show himself hero till
ho brings her down as Iris actual wife,
'Chen thorn woe very Muth to be done in
arranging nil this. And something to be
don0 also in making thoso who •lied boon
his friends, and perhaps more in making
those who had bean his enemies, under-
stand exactly how the mutton stood Had
no injury boots inflicted upon him, its
though 1110 had done evil to 1110 world In
general in befriending Mr. Peacock°, he
would have boon willing to pass the matter
Duel in silence among his friends; but 148
it was, he could not afford to slide his own
light under a bushol, I3e was being
plulished almost to the extent of rain by
the oruel inj(18tic0 which had been (sono
him by the evil tongue of Mrs.Staultiloup,
and, as 1111 thought, by the ft) ly of 1110
l3isLop. Ile most now let tilos.) who had
concorned tlloutso:v0$ knew 1a; acrnrataly
as he could what his hart (luno in the mat-
ter, and what had been the affect of his
doing. Ho wrote a letter. thorefare,
wlhieh was not, however, to bo pasted till
after the Peacooke miming() had been
celebrate(!, copies of which 110 prepared
with his (my: 111(nd,iu order that ho might
semi thong to tho Bishop and to Lally
Anne Clifford, and to 141r. Talbot and -
not, indeed, to Mrs Stantiloup,but to
Mrs. Stantiloup's husband. There 21)18 n
001)7 also mode for Mr. Morison, though
in his heart ho despised Mr. Monson
thoroughly In this letter ho (loolarod
the great r0epect tvh!'):) be had entertain-
ed, sinao hu had first 111102111 them, both
for pilau(! Mrs, Peacock() and the distress
whioih he had felt when Mr. Peacocks
1211(1 found 1litlts311 obllgod to explain to
him the fact, -rho fact which need not bo
repeated beOlinh0 the reactor is so w811 ac-
quainted with it. "Mr. P8[1000k0," 11e
went on to say ,"has since been to Amori'
0a, and has found the*, the ratan whom lite
believed to bo dead when he married his
wife, has (lied since his calamitous reap-
pearance. *Ir. 1 uattucllu pais soon the
man's grave, with the stono in it bearing
his mime, and has Drought bank with
him certificates and ovidonco as to his
burial.
"Under these chrcuntstaneos, I have 110
hesitation In ro-ompioyiag both him and
his wife; and I think that you will agree
that I could do 110 loss. 1 think you will
agree, also, that in the whole transaction
I havo done nothing of 21)1108 the parent
of any boy intrusted to me ha; a right to
compliiin."
Having done this he went up to Lon-
don, an(1 ntado arrangements for having
the marring° celebrated thero as soon as
possible after tho arrival of Mr. Pca•
cocke. And on his return to Bowie's,
he wont off to Mr. Pnddloombo with a
copy. of his lettor in his pocket. He had
not addressed a copy to his friend, nor
had he intended that one should be 5014 of Tobacco, Optaenor Sdtneu-
to hint. Mr. Putldioonhbo had not inter- Before ttndAfter, fskitsac o, Opium
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did not like the !otter.. "It does not tell
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"As how 1 Whore have I concealed any -
"If I undorstand the question rightly, 1
think?"
they who halo thought proper to tlako a
THE PLEAEURE
their children awayay frons your school be-
cause of Mr. Peacocks, nava done so bo
oauso that gent
lemon continued to live
with that lady whoa they both - knew that t'
they were not man and w ifo. l ` doe
"That wasn't my Join);."
"You o0hdoned it. I'm not condemning
t+you. You condoned it, and now you de-
fend yourself in this letter. But in poor
ol
iod
defence you do not really touch tho
offence as to which you aro, according to -t l/
your own showing, tteoused, In toilingt
the whole story, you should say: They dill t `
live together though they were not mar- 11
ried, and, under all tho circumstances, I . '---{
did not think that they were on that toe -
•count unfit to bo 1021 lit &largo of my '
boys.' „
- "But I sent 111111 away immediately-.. did
't0 America,".,
. "'You 1adlntv0d the( lady 10 remain." "-�'l� /'
"Then what would you have 1110 say?" ,r`'i '
demanded the 1)ootor.
"Nothing," so, 11 lir. PtiddiOonlbe; •
"nor, a worts. Live lb clown in silence.
Them will be those like 11170012 who,
though they could 1101 dare to say that In
morals 7Jn were strictly correct, will lovo
,•you the better for what you did." The \ e f'11 ~ -
Doctor turned his Paco t)wnrds the dry, - ,
' hard -looking man (111:1 showed that thorn That VOUi)o }i1dV Ol' \"O !'S would l)e
oh
was a tour in each of his oy08. ""'Thera •1 U Wot I
are few of as not so infirm its 8Otnetlnos pleased Indeed to Have one of
110 love best tont which i5 not best, But our Betrothal Kings.
Haven't asked leer!
Well if yott don't
some other fel-
1ow wilt be
the lucky
lean,
'when a man is nskod a downright ques-
tion, bo 18 bc,untl to 11neveor tho truth."
"You would soy noticing in your own
defence?"
":elot a word. 'You know the French
proverb: 'Who oxouses/111113011 is his own
tn0011501'.' The truth geriornliy 11011:09 Its
way, As far as I pan see, la slander never
lives long."
"'.Len of my 13078 aro goho I" said the
Doctor, who had not hitherto spoken n
Word of this to Buy ono out of his own
family+ --"toll out of twenty."
"That will only be 1t tentporarp loss"
".Chat is rl0thi1g__*nothing% It is tho
Iden that tho school sh0ttld bo Wittig"
"They 'x11°
will mom alta
g111111. I do
Not he -
Bove that that letter would bring as: boy.
I am alnast in0llnecl to say, I)r. \Vortlo,
WO a )111111 8110111(1 never def0nd himself"
ra [r
o shotik1 revel MY() to defend him-
self." goods and wedding presents on De -
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I'll tell you what I'll ds, lir. Wortle--if
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