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CHAPTER VII. Continued.
Had Charley ventured to look be
hind him as he turned away from the
lodge, he would have seen Mrs Gandy
stauding in the middle of the path,
looking after him, with a very curi
ous expression upon her face.
When he was out of eight, she went
back to the house, and pursued her
avocations in a mood unusually
thoughtful. After a time she be
gan to listen for his returning foot
steps. An hour, two hours, three
hours passed away and he did not re
turn. At the end of that time she heard
the sound of carriage wheels. It was
Mrs. Blakely, going out for a drive.
"A man went up to the Hall some
time ago did you see him, ma'am?"
asked Mrs. Gandy, as she opened the
gate.
"Oh, yes; became about Spring
Side Cottage. I sent him to Mr.
Crab ; he went out at the gate,' ans
wered Mrs. Blakely hastily. Her fuce
was covered with a thick, black veil
that entirely hid her features, and her
voice sounded strange and muflled.
As soon as the carriage had passed
through, Mrs. Gandy made her way
up the drive, across tho lawn, and
round to the back of the Hall, where
there was another gate used only by
the servants. The new dairy com
manded a full view of every person
who passed in and out through this
gate. Carry Was inside the dairy at
work.
"How long have you been here,
Carry?" asked Mrs Gandy.
"Ever since twelve o'clock. Why '
she asked.
"Did you see a tall man with a
beard go through that gate?"
"Nobody has gone through it since
I have been here, except Tom, the
gardener, who keepB the key."
Mrs. Gandy next went round to the
front entrance. A footman was stand
ing there sunning himself, and pick
ing his teeth.
"Did a tall man, with a beard, come
up here a good bit ago?" she asked of
him. t
"Yes ; such a person had been
there. He went up with Mrs. Blake
ly to her boudoir; suppose he went
away while he was at dinner ; bad not
seen him go. Llrs. Blakely did not
ring the bell to have him shown out.
Why did Mrs Gandy ask abpuUiim ?"
"Oh. nnthinz : she ha et tne
iodge for a few moments, and she had
not noticed him go out. Ho must
have left then that was all."
Mrs. Gaudy looked very pale and
scared, as she took her way down the
drive aain, brooding upon the mat
ter. This is very strange she muttered.
'"Ifeel convinced it was him, chang
es he is. The voico and the walk was
the same. But where has he vanish
ed ? Has there been another mur
der f" she shuddered. "I wish I was
out of this ill-omenedplace"
The three hours which Charles had
told the landlord of the 'Blakely
Arms' would be the utmost limit that
he would begone, and three more af
ter those, and still he did not return.
Evening began to gather in, and then
the man gave iiim tip, and thought it
was time to release the woman.
"Altered his miud I s'pose ; or only
did it for u lark," he muttered, as he
unlocked the barn-door. "Never
mind ; I got five shillin' by it."
Tho woman was still asleep, just in
the position in which he left her.
"Uome rouse up and get out of
this," he said, shaking her roughly.
But she gave no sign of life. He
lifted up her head ; but as his eyes
fell upon her face 4ie uttered au ex
clamation, and let it fall again.
She was dead!
CHAPTER VIII.
IN THE-SIIADOW OF THE COMING END.
Robert Blakely did not retcrn from
Norwich until late in the evening.
Ho had been playing billiards near
ly the whole day, and he was Hushed
with wine.
He-shouted lustily as he rode up to
the gate.
The gate was, 33 usual, opened by
Mrs. Gandy. "You will pleass to re
move from this lodge as soon as you
can possibly make it convenient,' he
said haughtily ; I have engaged an
other person for the situation. The
steward aliall have orders to pay you
all just demands. I object to insolent
people.1
'Thank you Mr. Robert Blakely,'
auswere.1 fhe "woman grimly. 'You
might have saved yourself the trouble
of giving me notioe, as I don't intend
toremaiu longerthan it suits me. I
have had quite enough of Blakely
Hall.
isut wneu 1 do go, my settle-
ment win not be with the
but with your inotber.'
steward,
'I forbid you to trouble my mother
with such affairs, he said peremtori-
iy.
Mrs. Gandy gave a short, insolent
laugh, and answered, 'Oh, your
mother and me understand one au
another.' His temper was rising fast, and, to
avoid an undignified quarrel with his
servant, he spurred his horse and gal
loped up the path. 'This woman has
some meaning in her insolence,' he
muttered.
It must be borne in mind tnat the
young man was in total ignorance of
.the circumstances of his birth, and of
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all his mother's secrets, and had been
purposely kept so.
Having consigned his horse to the
care of a groom, he went to bis own
room, as he did not care to meet his
mother in his present condition. He
washed, drank a bottle of seltzer wat
er, and felt refreshed. After which,
he lit a cigar, strolled into the grounds
and after looking around to see that
no one was observiug his movements,
made toward the furm. He had
bought Carry a pair of earingain Nor
wich, and he wished to give them to
her at once. It was a very warm
night; the parlor window was open,
and the blind undrawn, and there
was Carry sitting alone at the table,
mending stockings. Her father was
gone to Norwich, and had not return
ed. Mother she had none. Mrs. Lee
had, at this period, been dead about
two years.
Opeuing the garden gate and stand
ing under the window, Robert called
her gently by name.
'Who's there?' she exclaimed,
starting at the sound of his voice.
'It is I,' was the answer.
'Oh, please sir, do go away,' pleaded
Carry, in great distress. 'If father
should come back and see you there,
what would he think?'
'Come out a moment, Carry, dear,'
hesaid, 'I have brought you a pres
ent. There is not a soul about, and
your father cannot return withoutour
hearing him time enough for you to
get back.'
He had not known before that old
Lee was away, and he was well pleas
ed at the discovery.
With a little more coaxing, Carry
reluctantly came out.
'We must not stop here, for fear
some of the farm-servants should sur
prise us, ' he said. 'Let us take a
quiet walk round by tho dairy. Come,
the moon makes it almost as light as
day,'
So they walked round toward the
dairy, Carry trembling very much
with the conviction that she was do
ing very wrong.
'Look here Carry,' he said, produc
ing a small Morocco case, and taking
out of it a pair of handsome gold ear
rings ; 'how do you like those?'
'Oh, how beautiful!' she cried, rap
turously. In the drop of each was a
small diamond that glittered like a
spark of fire in the moonlight. 'They
are for your mother, I suppose?'
'No, darling; they are for you,' ho
whispered softly.
'Oh, no, no!' she said, shrinking
back, but never takiug her admiring
gaze from, off them. 'You are jesting.
I should never dare to wear such
grnnu tilings as tliose.'
'Not here, perhaps,' he said. 'Let
tne take those common things out of
your ears, and try the effect of these,
just for one moment, just to please
me.'
Siio made but faint resistance, so he
gained his poiut. 'How I wish we
had a mirror here, that you might see
yourself !' he cried admiringly. She
looked so pretty in the soft moonlight
with that half-frighteued, lialtpleas
ed look upon hr face, that he could
not resist the impulse to suutch a
kiss.
She did not shrink from him, but
burst into tears. 'Oh, Mr. Blakely,'
she said eutreatingly, 'do, pleasa,
leave me, and don't come any more!
This is all very wrong, very wicked,
and no good can come of iu'
'And why not?' he exclaimed, pas
sionately. 'Suppose I were to make a
laily of you ? I am my own master.
I can do as I please, without being
amenable to any one. The gentry
here refuse to recognize me. I shall
leave tills place ; my mother Gan re
main at the Hall. We will go to Lon
don. I will send you to school make
a lady of you ; for I love you. Carry
dearly love you.'
All this time he was holding her to
his heart, and she was sobbiug upon
his shoulder.
'But would you really make me
your wife?' she asked, timidly, after
a pause.
'What else could you be to me?' he
said, caressing her. 'I will do any
thing you ask me ; my love is so great
that I can refuse you nothing.'
And at that moment he believed all
that he was saying, meant all that he
promised.
'There rau-t be no delay,' he went
on to say, excitedly ; 'we will leave
this place at once.
She shrank at the thought of such
haste, but he passionately urged that,
after what had passed h&tweeu them
that night, they would no longer be
able to conceal their sentiments from
prying eyes that the slightest indis
cretion might place them!at the mer
cy of gossip, or frualrate all their
plans everything could be arranged
for their flight by the second night
from the present.
She cried 'No, no." and sobbed and
pleaded to him to &pare her.
But how could a simple country
girl resist the passionate appeals of
one who promised to raise her from
drudgery to affluence, a5u of one,
above all, to whom her heart inclin
ed but too fondly?
And so she promised to fly with
him upon the second night from that.
Then she entreated him to permit
her lofefurn to the farm, lest her ab
sence should be discovered.
The words uprrri his lips were check
ed by the sound of light, rapid foot
steps upon the grass.
Hastily concealing themselves be
hind a clump of trees, they watched
and listened breathlessly.
The next moment a woman's form
emerged Into the moonlight, and
walked swiftly round to the back of
the Hall.
It is Mrs. Gandy,' whispered Car
ry, trembling.
From the position In which they
were standing, the whole line of the
back part of the building was dis
tinctly visible in the bright moon
light. They saw her make towards the
left wing, which, as the reader will
probably remember, was the closed up
part of the building; there she stop
ped, and appeared to attentively sur
vey it. After a sew moments she
moved on again, pausing at every
other step, as though to listen, and so
proceeded until she had gone the
whole length of the wing. After
which she retraced her stens. nnd
seemed to scrutinize the walls, almost
stone by stone, occasionally standing
quite still, and looking up at the up
per part of the building in a listening
attitude.
This took up some ten minutes,
which to the watchers seemed an
hour; then she glided away in the
same direction from which she had
come, and was lost to sight.
'What con be the meaning of this?'
cried Robert In a low voice. A feel
ing almost akin to fear bad come over
him at witnessing this strange pro
ceeding. 'Oh, let me go now,' cried Carry,
who was trembling from head to foot.
I feel as though I should die of fright
No, no; don't come with me, for I
fear lest any one Bhould see us. Good
night.'
Her lips were cold as Ice as he press
ed them ; but she timidly, and for the
first time, returned her kiss, then ran
away frightened at her boldness.
The Hall clock struck ten as he re
entered the house. He went into the
breakfast room, hoping to find Deer
brook there, and have a cigar with
him. He found, not Deerbrook, but
his mother alone much to his sur
prise, as she always passed the even
ings in her own room.
She was recliuiug upon a couc,h
reading, or pretending to read. She
rose at his entrance ; and he could not
help remarking how very pale aha
looked.
'Yes, I have a headache," she ans
wered, hastily. 'But where have you
been ? Your servau t told me that you
had returned from Norwich, and gone
out again ho thought, into the
grounds.
'Yes, I went out to smoke a cigar ;
the night is so lovely, thatl could not
rest in the house."
He was about to tell her that he
bad diar3issed the Gandys, and also
Of Ii" .'Slugcultuuiiiatauvo -vr-lloh lo
had ju6t witnessed. But she
looked so worn and ill, that he
thought he would defer such com
munications until tho morning.
Heaat there for some time, talking
upon different subjects, but she seem
ed absent and pre-occupied, and he
soon grew weary of having the con
veraatijn to himself; so he rose and
wished her good night, intending to
have a light supper served in hi own
room, for ho had dined early and be
gan to feel hungry.
She put her arms round his neck,
and her eyes were full of tears, as she
kissed him with more than usual
fondness. She he.d him thus for
some seconds, loth to release her
hold.
'Why do you not go to bed, moth
er?' he said -kindly ; 'you look so very
ill."
'Yes, yes, I shall go noon. Good
night. God bless you, my son ; and
muy He pardon me!' she added, be
neath her breath.
As he went up-stairs, he looked in
to Deerbrook's room, and found him
reatiing.
'Come up-atairs, old felloiy, and
smoke a cigar. I havo ordered Wil
liam to bring a bottle of Burgundy
and some biscuits .to my room.'
But Deerbrook answered that he
was tired that he had been walking
all -day, and was just going to bed.
So Robert left him in a huff, without
even saying good night.
'What the deuce oils all the people
to-night?' i)e muttered; 'everybody
seems to have the mopes, and to be
horribly disagreeable except my dear
little Carry. And, for tho matter of
thil, lam not much belter myself.'
But the pleasant image of a pretty,
simple face, that rose just then upon
his imagination, quickly put him in
to a good humor agaiu. And he sat
smoking and sipping his Burgundy,
.lost in roseate dreams of futuie hap
piness until the dawn surprised him,
and then he went to bed, to dream
the waking dreams over again in his
sleep.
CHAPTER IX.
A FAMILY IIISTORV
Deerbrook did -not go' to bed as he
had expressed his intention of doing;
but as soon as Robert left the room,
laid down the book that he had been
feigning to read, aud took a seat at
the open window.
There was no pleasant smile, no va
cuous amiability uptr'n his face now ;
but a dark stern expression, that
would have reminded an observer of
his sister Helen.
He had been, as he saicf, walking
nearly all day, and he had drunk
deeply, but alcohol could give no
more excitement to tIie brain thau
was there already. He had not told
his sifter yet of the meeting with bis
wife, but he intended to do so before
he went to bed. He was waiting for
her to come up-stairs to her own
apartments, which were next to his,
as there he would be certain of an un
interrupted tete-a-tete.
The window at which he was sit
ting was situated directly over the en
trance to the servants offices; a scent
of tobacco-smoke was in the air, and
there was the sound of voices beneath.
Looking out he saw the butler and
one of tLe footmen leaning against
the wall smoking. They were talk
ing, butDeerbrook was too wrapt in
his own reflections to take any inter
est in their conversation until certain
words arrested his attention.
I'm quite certain, Mr. Simpson,
there's a screw loose somewhere.' (It
was the footman's voice that spoke.)
;If ever anybody had soaiethlug on
their mind a shouldn't be there, It's
missus. Why, you know, there's all
sorts o' rumors about; you've heard
'em as well as me ; and what with
the stories of a mysterious murder,
and mysterious people, and doubts
about the lawful heir, blessed if I care
for the place much, and I shall cut it
as soon as convenient.'
'When the rats desert a ship It is a
sign that she will soon go to the bot
tom,' thought Deerbrook, who was
beginning to listen with some curios
ity to the opinion of the servauts'
hall.
The butler spoke next.
'Well, James, there Is a good deal of
truth in what you say the place is
mysterious. Now, of course I need
not tell you that there is no supersti
tious nonsense about me. I don't be
lieve in no old women's stories; it
wouldn't do foraman in my position ;
and you know that when the women
have been a whispering about noises
beiu' heard in the shut-up wing, I've
set my face agin it, and reproved 'em
severely; but this is In confidence,
of course when I went down to the
cellar, to fetch a bottle of wine for
Mr. Blakely's man, just now you
know the wine-cellar goes a little way
under the left wing well, just as I'd
taken the bottle out of the biu, I
heard a queer hollow sound, just for
all the world like a stifled groan, and
it seemed to come from the end of the
cellar nearest the wing. Of course, I
don't wish this to go further, because
I've no doubt that it was all fancy ;
but all I can say is, that it was queer.'
James, by the awed tone iu which
he expressed his surprise, seamed to
think so to.
Well, talking about mysteries,' he
added, 'that was a rum thing that
happened to-day. Who was that fine
military-looking fellow that came
here this morning that was so particu
lar about speaking to the missus in
private? Thero was a something in
the look of his face thut struek me
as queer, aud tho missus looked as if
tho cauao idon, otruok her. But when
did he go away? JNobody saw liim
after he weut up-stairs ; none of us
bhowed him out.'
'Well, then, he must have gone
without being showed,' answered the
butler, with an attempt at a joke.
'But he never passed through, the
lodge gate; for about three or four
hours after, as I was standing at the
front entrance, up comes Mother Gan
dy, and asks me if I'd seen such a
person; aud when I asked her why
she wanted to know, she answered
in a sort of off-hand way that she
hadti't noticed him go out, aud went
away again, but I could seo that she
had something in her head.'
'Well, I certainly 'av noticed that
Mrs. Blakely has looked hawfully
queer all day, more like a corpse than
a living 'omau,' said the butler after
a pause; 'aud she's lying 011 a couch
iu the breakfast room now, instead of
going to bed as usual, and 'as dismiss
ed her maid for the night. I think
you're quite right, James ; and as you
very strongly, if rather vulgarly, put
it, I think there is a screw loose
somewhere, and it is a duty we owe
to ourselves to look Luto it, because it
wouldn't do for me, -nor I don't sup
pose that it would do for you, to stop
in a place that there was queer goings
on in.'
At that moment the Hall clock
tolled eleven, and by the time that
the last stroke had sounded, the lo
quacious servitors had retired.
Mr. Deerbrook drew in his head
and closed the wiudow. Who was
this military-looking man who had
had a private interview with Helen,
and who seemed to have departed so
mysteriously ?
The question puailed him. But
while he had been listening to this
conversation, Helen had probably
come up to her room. He went to
tho door aud knocked no answer.
No one Was within. Very strange
that; so contrary to her uoiia! habits.
The butler had said that she was ly
ing upon the couch in the breakfast
re om ; he would go down stairs, and
see if ahe were there still.
Y"es, there she was, lying upon the
couch, with her eyes closed. He
walked in softly, and shut the door
behind him. 'Helen, are you asleep?
he sked softly.
She started up with a faint cry, and
a wild look of terror. "Is that you
Edward? Oh, how you Martled me!'
'Yes, I have been waiting to 6peak
to you all the evening,' he auswered,
scrutinizing her palid face, 'f tho't
you would be in your boudoir, as usu
al, where we could .speak' more pri
vately than here. But I suppose
there is not any fear of interruption at
this hour?'
She fixed her eyes upon his face,
with a growing look of fear In them,
but did not speak.
'I had an unexpected meeting to
day.' he went on. 'Mrs. Deerbrook
is at present honoring the neighbor
hood with her Drespn'm
I 'That woman here!' oxolalmed
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Helen. 'Give her money let her
drink send her away rid me of
her!'
I am not sure that It will be so
easy to send her nway, or that she
will even take oar money,' answered
Deerbrook, coolly.
'What do j-ou mean ?'
'Well, she talked about preferring
revenge upon you.'
'Revenge ! For what ?
'For having defrauded her out of
the man she loved, and marrying him
yourself.'
Defrauded her! Would I permit
Robert Blakely to marry that crea
ture?' she exclaimed scornfully.
'But you thought the creature good
enough for Edward Deerbrook's
wife!' hesaid bitterly.
That was another thing,' she re
plied indifferently. 'You married
her for her money; he was above
such a consideration.'
But she had no monoy and you
knew it. She was in your way, and
you knew that!' he cried, almost
fiercely. 'You palmed her upon me,
because It suited yourambitious plans:
A more heartless woman than you
never breathed. You never felt
friendship or love for anything or
anybody, except this boy.'
'Heartless ! You faro a proper per
son to talk of heartlessness ; you, who
broke your father's heart; you
who ' She checked herself sud
denly.
I was a thoughtless spendthrift.
You have been, and are, a designing,
unscrupulous schemer. As you seem
to object to the definitions, let me
prove their truth by a short sketch of
our family history.'
'Why do you wish to rake up tho
past?' she cried. 'It has not been so
pleasant to either of us. I am ill
worried. I cannot listen to it now.'
I have been ill worried all day,'
ho answered, mercilessly. 'I have a
fancy to-night to review our past
lives. It will assist me in carrying
out a strange train of thought that
came into my mind just now.'
She fell back, with an involuntary
groan and a shudder.
Our father was a country clergy
man,' he began, 'in possession of a
living of some two hundred and fifty
pounds a year. Our mother was a
weak, quiet creature, without a will
of her own, and entirely governed by
her children These were three in
number you, I, and poor Edith,
Everybody was pinched that I might
have the education of a gentleman. I
was wild, extravagant, and what
steady people call a young scamp.
You see, I have no wish to glozo over
my own short-comings. You were a
moody, discontented girl envious of
everything, especially of Edith, be
cause she had more admirers than
yourself. Edith was a good creature,
loving, amiable, and self-saorificing.
wen, our mother died first, and two
years afterwards, our father his
death hastened, no doubt, as you say,
by my debts and bad habits;' here
his voice trembled a little, in spite of
his assumed indifference. 'He died
poor, and we had to go out into the
world aud earn our own liviug. Of
course we all went to London every
body does who has no money, add no
idea how to get any. A distaut rela
tion of our mother's kept a suburban
lodging-house not a very aristocratio
one and she accommodated us at a
cheap rate. How wo contrived to
live would have puzzled us to ex
plaiu. You opened a school, which,
to judge by the stualLnees of the at
tendance, was not appreciated in the
neighborhood. Edith sewed, em
broidered, painted. I well, I played
billiards, betted, wrote paragraphs for
the newspapers, and what I earned,
speut upon on myself, and helped as
well to spend my sisters' earnings.
Among the companions I met about
town was & dashing young country
squire named Robert Blakely. One
day I brought him home with me,
and he fell in love with Edith ; aud
no wonder, for &he was the prettiest
4;irlleversaw; and you fell In love
with him, or, I should rrither say,
with his squiredom. Well, Robert
Blakely married Edith, and his father
turned his back upon him. Then he
joined the family group, and became
one of Ihe nondescripts. Just after,
this, a German came to lodge in the
house Ernest Widand, a political
refugee, conspirator, literateiir, en
thusiast, heaven knows what; but a
very worthy fellow, for all that. We
soon became acquainted. Robertbor
rowed money from him, Edith talked
poetry with him, I talked politics
with him, and you, being disappoint
ed of the squire, and taking tho dis
appointment more coolly since his
disgrace, flopped your aflection upon
him.'
How dare you insult me In this
grc'ss' manner?' exclaim ed Helen,
firing up. 'You, to whom I have
given food, shelter, money! you
whom I lifted out of the gutter and
made si gentleman of!'
'You have donp an,' bo answered,
calmly, 'and why? Because you
feared not to doit. Had I not pos
sessed your secret, I might have per
ished in the gutter for all you cared.
You can hear me out or not, just as
you please; butifyou refuse to do so
f warn, you -that you may repent it.
Shall I go on?'
There was no reply, nnd she had
sunk back into her former position.
wen, tove and poverty did not
B.eem to aseimilate in my brother-in-law's
constitution, he went on; 'and
when poverty came in at the door,
love very soon flew out at the window.
Perhaps they were not exactly suit
ed to each other, he aud Edith who
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unfortunately inherited too much of
our poor mother's soft nature. This
became even more apparent after his
removal to Blakely Hall. As you are
aware, I never had the pleasure of
paying this ancestral home a visit
during those 'days, as, just before- hla
accession to the squirearchy, Wfeland
had procured me an appointment
with a wine-merchant at Bordeaux."
'Whose money you embezzled, and
were nearly sent to the galleys in con
sequence?' shosald, bitterly.
'Quiet true,' he replied, with Un
perturbed serenity. The only pity
is, regarding it from your point of
view, that I was not. Ernest Wie
land Heaven bless him ! saved me
from this disgrace.
'You call upon Heaven to bless
your sister'o murderer!' sho said
sneoringly.
'Ernest Wieland had nq more to do
with my sisters death than I had!'
he answered, emphatically.
'Then who do you suppose had?'
she cried, starting up.
'Theory does Inot enter Into my
present narrative.'
'But why should he fly on thafe
night, and never since be heard of?'
she asked, fixing her eager eyes unoa
Fhim.
And why should ho commit tho
deed ? You know that he always felt
for Edith the most sincere', brotherly
affection ?'
'Brotherly affection !' she reiterat
ed with a sneering emphasis.
'Shame upon you!' he cried, indig
nantly. 'Would you cast a suspicion
upon the dead upon the meulory of
one who met so ead a fate? No purer
woman than Edith Blakely, normoro
honorable man than Earnest Wie
land, ever lived. This is not the first
time you have hinted such a thought.
You hinted it to the husband that
you might yet more estrange him
from the wife, because you envied
and hated her that she, and not you,
was mistress of Blakely Hall. And
while you still encouraged the atten
tions ofEearnest Wieland, you'r heart
still hankered after the man of acres,
and you were madly jealous of tho
woman whom you afterwards, out
of revonge, thrust upon me for for a
wife. I see all these things now clear
ly, and for the first time. Then came
the calumniating crime, and the mys
terious disappearance of tho child.'
What became of that child? You
know, if I chose to tell.'
I !' she cried, sta'rtf ng up. 'What,
do you mean what do you Infer?
Oh, this is cruel! Do you wish to'
kill me?' Aud again she fell back,
moaning and shuddering.
But ho went on, with that calm,,
pitiless face, that during the whole of
this scene had reddened with passion!
only once when the fair fame of tho
dead was attacked"
'Tho family story is nearly ended.
I will not p'ress you upon th'e subjeot
of tho child's disappearance, as you
would not tell me the truth, nor do I
care to kuow.it. After the inquest
was over, aud the dead was buried,
Robert Blakely and yourself left the
Hall, and removed to London. There
you introduced me to Mrs. Green way,
who, for certain reasons, had conceiv
ed such a horror of her lover, that she
jumped into my arms at once. Soon
afterwards he disappeared, and you
also. I always suspected that you
were together. Mrs. Deerbrook did
not and I never mentioned ray sus
picions to her, as we ceased" to bo on
confidential terms very soon after the
honeymoon. From thattinle, 1 nev
er saw nor beard anything of my dear
sister, until that night I accidentally
caught sight of her from Essex Road,
and followed her home. Nothing
then remained to you but to confide
in me. From that time, I took care
to keep an eye upon my dear relations,
and bleed them" when their h'ealth re
quired It; and, of course, when the
young Squire came Into his property,
I received an unlimited invitation to
Blakely, of which, as you will per
ceive, I have availed rayself.'
And to what end have you spoken,
so far?' she asked, in her low, hollow
voice.
'To reckon you up, 33 the vulgar
saying Is, so that I, might be able to
form an exact estimate of what you
have dene, are capable of doing, to
gain your own ends. There is that
woman's address,' throwing upon,
the table a dirty scrap of paper that
his wife had given him. 'You can do
as you please about offering her mon
ey. I have refused her all further as
sistance ; but I advise you not" to seek
a personal Interview ; and as a parting
hint, I should cjunsel you 0 goat
once to bed, if you do not wish to ex
cite the gossip ofyouraervants. Good
night.'
Deerbrook returned to Lis own,'
room, aud prepared to retire to rest.
I feel better now,' he said to him
self. 'I did intend to ask her who
the mysterious visitor of to-day was
but if there be any secret iu tho case,
ahe would not have told me the truth'
and the question would have served
no other purpose than to put her on
her guard. I must find that out for
myself.
Ho eat down at the dressing table,'
half undressed, aud fell into deep'
thought for eorao moments.
The idea is only fit for a romance,'
he said, as he got into bed. 'It I3 IfkV
a remembrance of the plot of one of
my East End dramas. Well, they
say truth is stranger than fiction.'
Revolving this axiom, Mr. Deer-'
brook fell asleep.
Not until the cold, gray dawn
mingled with the light of the lamp
did Helen rise from tho couch upon
which her brother had left her, arid
O. W. yAIBBSOTirEE.
FAIRBROTHER
steal up to ner own chamber. Her
death-like face would" have struck ter
ror to any who had met her.
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