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CHAPTER xvil
HUNTER’S YARN.
N a warm even
ing in October the
steamship Pil
grim, of the New
York and Fall
River lino, had
just left her dock
at the former
place and was on
her way up the
sound. A rather
stout but actively
made man, with
curly red hair
and side whisk
ers, and rather
prominent gray
eyes, mounted
from below, and stood near
ft of the saloon. He liad just
„?ci Jr from his waistcoat pocket
* in the act of cutting off the end
urith his penknife, when a tall per-
“ with l-ony features and a thin
Same in through the door and con
ned him. Uo was about to pass on,
| l *t a second glance, stopped and said,
| to himself:
jj en rv Clifton."
L red haired man turned sharply.
Tstapleton, by jingo!" he exclaimed,
her shook hands, evidently pleased
16 encounter, eyeing each other all
as if to make sure that no part of
L r was missing. .
Ri’cll and what liavo you been doing
L yourself these three years past?”
Drid he of the red hair, who an-
[roiltotho name of Clifton. “Let’s
it was in Liverpool I 6aw you last,
n't it? You were after that forging
i’es, and I got ’em," responded the
(r , who had been addressed as Bob
hlcton. “It was a good job; I’ve had
Ling better since. But what brings
over hero?"
hit, a private affair—something par
tially choice,” replied Clifton, sticking
[cigar in his mouth. “All expenses
j a J twenty pound a month.”
Build That's not bad. A hundred
are ami expenses. What is it? Is
[land Yard after the Fenians again?"
Ko, no. I don't belong to the Yard
more; doing business now on ray
p feet. I'm engaged on a case involv-
la hundred and fifty thousand pounds
ftven hundred and fifty thousand of
It money.”
Brent Scott! A robbery?"
"too; no such common business. A lost
A lost heir? That sounds good! Como,
c got the evening before us; suppose
spin the yam."
lutuphl I'm not so sure about that,”
irned Clifton, scratching his whiskers
ghtfully. “This isn’t the sort of
that one tells to everybody. How-
he added, “you’re not everybody,
ig'n l suppose you consider yourself
body; at all events, if you promise
p it dark, I fancy I can trust you.
let's go into some quiet corner—as
warm evening, suppose we sit out-
where we can smoke. I have cigare
igh, and this yam will probably last
more than one of them."
they |>aased out of tho door, a
eman who had been sitting in a
not far off, with his hat drawn
over his nose, and who had seem-
been asleep, rose quietly from his
and proceeded *o the door of a state
a little way forward of the paddle
He entered the room and locked
oor after him; then he breathed
of relief. He took off his hat and
at his reflection in the* mirror,
wed the countenance of a man be-
120 and 80 years of age—perhaps
r the latter age than the former—
lower part of which was thickly
with a brown beard, cropped
at the sides and round the throat,
Allowed to grow to a point on the
Tho forehead, cheeks and nose
^deeply bronzed by the sun, giving
^ ctfluu ’ Appearance to a pair of hand
bl»e eyes. The hair was cut short;
ono would have taken the head for
0 t Frenchman. This idea would
wen confirmed when the gentle-
Put across his nose a pair of tinted
*ff?’ mounted in gold. He re-
iea himself critically.
«s, he muttered, in the undertone
j-0 people use when conversing with
v es. “it’s a good get up, consider-
tne simplicity Q f the materials. No
1 j 81 ! 1401 disguising myself; and
doubt if m y own mother—Qod
er;— WO uld recognize me at the
glance, though my sister might. 1
»ave been intended by nature for
» T } Dl Y features lend themselves so
■Mo a disguise. At one time lam
i>„*\ nCUn: then an Englishman; pow
mian; to-morrow I may attempt
... ora Russian. But what an ex-
nary piece G f bad luck that that
i u _ ” ton should be on this steamer 1
ilv a°. w l * lat * am on board?
lust yet * w hat is hekare for?
Ub, t boon thnl oA J
lat
P n that same business; and
u®willingly, 1 a “ COn ° erned ’ W
Perhaps he has pome
_ .“P m y record. Confound him,
t he let me alonel , I shall have
w time of • it without him.
im - j w H l 8° straight to Inspector
I when the inspector finds out
n °t—what’s that?"
. T|* r to answer this question, it
observed that the state room
011(ll ..»^^Wd gentleman was
tfater ° ° nC; its wlm * ow opened on
’or rather on a narrow strip
„fwvened between the
a "il he , VV ' all , 0f «tate room itself
This strip of deck was just wide enough
to admit of a person sitting there, with
his shoulders against the wall and his
feet on the nul- :m attitude said to be a
favorite one \\ ith Americans, and which
any pemon who has studied the circula-
tion of the blood and its action on the
brain will gladly put himself into The
windows it should be added, was pro
tected by a wooden blind with, fine slats
not noticeable from without.
The noise which had caused the
bearded gcntlgman to break off so ab
ruptly liHiS monologue "hall been caused
by the advent of two persons with camp
stools to the apparently secure retreat
which the narrow strip of deck already
plluded to afforded. Having established
themselves there to their saUsfaction,
and lit their cigars, they began to talk in
a low tone. But although the blind of
the bearded gentleman’s stateroom was
shut, the window itself was open; and as
he had reason to suppose that tho con
versation was going to be of particular
importance to himself lie took, care to
leave the window as it was, and even to
sit down beside it. As the reader will
already liavo surmised, the speakers were
the two gentlemen to whom We have al
ready been introduced—Henry Clifton
and Bob Stapleton.
“You went first to New Zealand, eli?’
Stapleton was saying. “How liappened
your mar.—Valentina do you call him?—
to be therp?"
?‘Ho was the second son, don’t you sec?
and consequently, after he’d run through
the money his father gave him, he had
only himself to fall back on.:; So he
started for New Zealand to make his fort
une at sheep farming. When I got
there he had been gone the better part
of a year or more. The sheep farming
' had not turned out very well, but he
had got a sum of money somehow, and
had gone off to enjoy it; whether he
would come back again, and where he
had gone, no one could tell me. You
may be sure that if he had known that
his elder brother was going to die, and
let him into full possession of an estate
worth three-quarters of a million of dol
lars, he would have left his address.”
“It’s n most curious thing,” observed
Mr. Stapleton, philosophically, “how
some men will run after a good thing all
their lives and never catch it, and an
other man will run away from a good
thing all his life, arid never let it catch
him.”
Well, as I was saying," Mr. Clifton
continued, “this Mr. Valentine—as I call
him—hail left fpr parts unknown, and
my business was to find out where that
was. I thought it all over, and made up
my mind that America was alxiut the
most likely place, for he wouldn’t be
likely to go back to England, and, being
of a roving disposition, and never hav
ing visited the States, that was naturally
tho first place he’d think of. And when
a man goes to America he’s pretty cer
tain sooner or later to fetch up in New
York. So it was in New York that I
figured I should find him. But before I
started 1 thought it would be as well to
niako the thing certain by sending on a
cable message, addressed to certain par
ties in New York that you may have
heard of. asking whether my man wa3
there. Sending telegrams half round
tho earth costs money, F^ob; but it doesn’t
cost quite as much as to go yourself, let
alone the time and tho wear and tear.
“However, expenses being paid,” Baid
Bob.
“That’s all very well, but parties em
ploying one like to have ngood account
of their money; and a good recommenda
tion is sometimes worth more than casli
in hand. Well, I didn’t look for anon
swer inside of a week or ten days; but
forty-eight hours after I had Bent off the
dispatch the landlord of. my hotel came
up to me and told me that he believed I
was looking for Mr. Valentine, and that
a man had just arrived from Panama
who had met a party going by that name
in Mexico some six weeks before, and he
thought likely he’d-be there yet. I told
him to bring the man around, and he
came and I had a talk with him.
“He had seen Valentine, sure enough;
I made up my mind as to that. He de
scribed him as near os could bo; for
though I had never seen him myself 1
had all the points about him from those
vpho had, and a photograph taken four
or five years, before. The fellow said that
Valentine had come to Mexico from New
York, after being wrecked in a big gale
at St. Thomas, and a friend of his—I’ll
call him Percy—was drowned in the
same storm.”
“You call him Percy, do you?" in
terposed Mr.’ Stapleton, “and he was
drowned in the St. Thomas hurricane?
. And what might his other name be?”'
•Tm not giving names; Pm telling you
a story,” returned Mr. Clifton curtly.
“That’s all right; something occurred
to my mind, that’s all; and a mighty
good story it is you’re telling,” rejoined
the other affably. “So Mr. Valentine
went over to Mexico, did he? And what
did he do there?"
“Well, he’d brought some letters, so it
seems, introducing him to the president
and some .ether,swells;-and he handed
’em in, and was received in good style.
He gaye ’em to understand that he’d
come to settle, and grow-up with, the
country, so to speak.
“One thing led to another, and at last
they got talking about mines; and with
that the president gave him a guide, and
sent him off up to a place called Pachu-
ca, about sixty or seventy miles north of
the city. ,He. moused about there—)ie
knew something of mining, it ap
pears—and examined the mines that
were working, and some othera that had
been given up; and at last he fixed on a
bit of ground where there wasn’t any
mine at all; but he took a fancy to it
for all that, and went back to Mexico to
see about getting possession of it. He
managed things very cleverly, and got
the swells interested, and made out that
he wanted to let them into a good thing,
and would bo satisfied with a very small
share himself, and would take all the
trouble of looking after the business off
their hands into the bargain. So what
did he do but raise a company, and the
company raised a capital—you know
how those things are worked—and they
rued their claim to the land, ana ap- all? 1 have got tho papers and 1 am
pointed him manager, and the first tests called by that name; but you yourself
said that you never saw me before; and
ho made showed a bigger percentage of
silver than had been known in that
neighborhood for a hundred years.
‘That was the news my informant
brought nio; he said all Mexico was talk
ing of it, and that Mr. Valentine’s pick-
tngs, though they might be small, com
paratively speaking, were likely to stand
him in a cool hundred thousand dollars
a year, which is enough to keep a man
off the parish.”
Yes, I should think it might," Mr.
Stapleton assented. “And that’s the way
it is in this world. Henry Clifton; luck
goes dead against a man for years and
years, and no let up. and then all of a
sudden, for no reason that over anybody
can find out, his brother dies and leaves
him a million in England, and he goes
to Mexico and collars a mine worth a
hundred thousand a year. The million
ain’t enough, and the mine ain’t enough;
he must liave ’em both; that’s the way
of the world evory time!"
Mr. Clifton accepted- this statement
without comment and went on with his
story.
“As you may suppose, I lost no time
in packing ray gnp for Mexico, and I got
there in due season and without accident.
I put up at tho best hotel, as is always
my way, for it costs no more in the end,
and gives a man a good standing at the
first send off. I made my inquiries, in a
quiet,-off'hand way; and I had no diffi
culty at all in hearing all I wanted, Mr.
Valentine was there; nobody could speak
too well of him; he was hand In glove
with the president, and he was at that
momeut out in Paphuca, superintending
tho putting up of the new machinery in
the liew mine. If I had any business
with him, that was where I would find
him. So the next morning, at 0 o'clock,
took the train at Buena Vista station
to Omeltusco, and then by diligence and
herse car to Pachuca, which I reached at
sundown, dead tired, and chock full of
dust, and a precious cold, disagreeable,
shabby hole Pachuca is, anti I don’t care
who knows it!
‘But I was on business, and when I
learned that Mr. Valentiue was camping
out about five miles above I hired a mule
then and there, and a black fellow to
show me tho way; and by nightfall 1
had him!”
you could not swear that 1 am not some
body else. I should have to go to Eng
land in any case to prove my identity. I this property and share it between you,
here, and that’s the ' and keep me out! But I will have
staggered for a moment; and tnen all at
once she called out; *1 see how it isl You
two have arranged this thing between
youl You are in a conspiracy to cheat
me! You have plotted to get hold of
' But 1 prefer to. stay
end of ill’ . >, . * ,■
“It was the queerest case ever I heard
of, and. I didn’t know what to make of
it. 1 sat there and talked and argued
with him for an hour-and more, but
nothing 1 could say mode a bit of dif
ference. He wouldn’t have the property
at any price, and he’didn’t care what
came of it. 1 gave it over, at last, for
the tiriie being, and passed the night in
the hut; the next morning I tried him
again, but he was as obstinate as ever.
Well. I didn’t believe yet that he meant
my rights in spite of youl I will
denounce both of you to the au
thorities. For all I know, you may have
murdered my husband and taken his
papers. But you will not succeed; 1 will
expose you. and you shall be punished!’
“Well, that made me a little angry,
and I told her that if site wanted to
charge me with conspiracy she had bet
ter set about it at once, and the sooner
the better, for I knew who would get
the worst of it. As Tor Mr. Valentine,
he didn’t lose his temper, but he said
all he said, so I made up my mind to { very quietly, *1 am not a murderer, ma-
give him a bit more rope. 1 told him 1 • dam, and you will only waste your time
was going to stay in Mexico a week or
two, and let him understand that if ho
wanted to q|iange his mind he’d liave an
opportunity; and then I Baid good day
and rode of. 1 went back to Mexico,
and put up at the hotel, and thpught it
all over; but the more I thought about
it the less 1 could make it out. If he
in trying to prove me such. But I can
assure you that, if I am not your hus
band—and 1 certainly am not—no such
person exists in the world. Neither can
you sustain the charge that I am aiming
—either in combination with Mr. Clifton
or alone—to keep you out of this prop
erty. I told him a week ago, before you
was the right man (and everything about ; arrived in Mexico, tliat I would have
him showed ho was) it didn’t seem in j nothing to do with it, and to that deter-
huuian nature to refuse the property; \ mination I shall adhere. The utmost you
and if he was an impostor, who had can attempt to do is to show that I am
somehow managed to get hold of tho • not Mr. Valentine, and that you are wel-
NOT A PIMPLE ON HIM NOW
CHAPTER XVIIL
A DILF.1H1A.
NDsoyou hand
ed him over the
deeds of his es
tate, a pnd that’s
the end of the
4 story?” said Mr.
J Stapleton interro
gatively.
“You’re going
a bit too fast,"
the other replied.
“The story is just
going to liegin;
what I’ve told
you is merely by
way of explain
ing the situation.
After chasing a
man half round the world, and a little
more, you don’t expect to get through
your business with him in. five minutes.
When I first saw him he was smoking a
cigar by a fire that w^ks built outside of
one of them adobe huts, and drinking a
stuff they call pulque, which is the near
est they can get to whisky in that coun
try, and pretty poor stuff it is. Well, I
stepped up to him and says I, ‘Good
evening, Mr. -—(giving hiin hia name,
you understand) ‘for I am told that you
are that gentleman.' He looked up at
me, and I said to myself that I had made
no mistake. He had on a Mexican
serape and a wide brimmed hat; but his
figure and face answered well enough to
my description of him, though instead
of side whiskers he had a mustache and
chin beard, as if he meant to be a Mexi
can through and through.
“ ‘Yes,’ says he, looking up at me;
•and have you any business with me? 1
“ ‘Well,’ says l, *1 think I may say I
have, since I’ve come some fifteen thou
sand miles to find you.' He stopped a
bit and then said, ’From England.
Oh?* ‘You are right, sir,’ said I;
‘but before !■ go further, and to be
sure there’s no mistake, I must
ask you to bo kind enough to give
me an account of youreelf*-your family
and so forth—so tliat I may know you
are the man I’m sent to see, and no
other.’ ‘And what if 1 refuse?* said. he.
‘Then,’ said I, ‘all I’ll have to do Is to go
back whdre I came from; though I may
tell you that if you are the gentleman in
question it will be your - loss, and a big
loss, too, not to let me know ik"
As to that,’ ho says, ‘I don’t know
that you can give me anything I care to
have, whatever you may have brought;
but if you want to know my history I
always carry my papers about with me,
and I’ve no objection to your looking
them over.’ And with th*t he took a
wallet out of his pocket, and handed it
to me. I opened it and examined the
papers one after the other. ’They seem
all right; sir.’ 1 said; ’and 1 suppose I
may as well take it that eyery&iing is
correct and regular;’ so then I went on
and told him what had happened, how
his brother was dead, and tie the heir of
the property. He heard it all with a
sort of strange look on Ills face: and
when I gottrthrough at first he said
nothing at alL He got up and took a
turn up and down, smoking his cigar;
but at last he comes back, and says he,
•Who’s the next heir after mo?
“I didn't see just what that had to do
with it; but I said Ikupposed it Would be
his cousin or whatever relative was near
est his own blood. ‘Well,’ says ho, chuck
ing away his cigar, *whoever he is, he
may have it. I’m very well satisfied as
I am,"and I won’t have anything to do
with it.’ Those were his very words, and
you may suppose 1 was a bit surprised.
‘You won’t have anything to do with a
hundred and fifty thousand pounds?
says I. ;Not with that hundred and
fifty thousand, at any rate,’ said he.
‘But what are you going to do
about it? says I; *the property is
yours, and it’s entailed, and you can’t
ret rid of it.* ‘Oh, don’t trouble yourself
about that,’ said he, with a laugh. ‘It ;
won’t bo buried in the ground. And if i
the worst comes to the worst how do
you. know that I am the right man after
come to attempt. But I warn you before
hand that all the evidence is on my side,
and that you will fail. I advise you to
go back whence you came, and to give
up any idea of eyer becoming a great
English lady. Meanwhile, I have the
honor to wish you good mornlngl’
“He bowed to her as polite and cool
as ’you please, and walked out of the
patio and I followed him. ‘What in the
name of wonder does all this mean?* I
asked him.
“ ‘Really, Mr. Clifton,’said he, ‘lean
give you no explanation. You have
heard the whole conversation, and you
must draw your own conclusions from
it, as I do mine. If you believe that that
lady is tho wife, or the widow, of the
Mr. Valentine who has inherited the es
tate* you are at liberty to act in acqord-
ahee with your conviction. The most
difficult thing will probably he to make
other people believe as you do.’
“ ‘That’s all right, Mr. Valentine,* said
I,’but there is one thing you can tell
me. You said just now that you had
heard speak of that lady before, and the
inference was that wliat you had lies
was not to her credit. Now what aid
you mean by tliat?* •
“ ‘Well, Mr. Clifton,? said ho, ‘perhaps
I may have heard of her before, or per
haps I may be mistaken in thinking I
had; but I don’t see why the inference
to be drawn is necessarily a bad one. At all
evnets, 6he has never done me any harm,-
and 1 don’t believe she ever will, or can;
and I have no present intention of harm
ing her, either by word or deed. As I
said before, you must follow your own
judgment; as fonue, what I have said I
stick to, and nothing will change me.’
By that time we. had got to the door of
the Office of the secretary of the interior,
who was a friend of his, and lie went in
and left me. in the street, to do my o\vn
thinking.”
“Well, and what was the upshot of it
all?" inquired Mr. Stapleton.
‘‘It isn’t ended yet,” Mr. Clifton re
plied; “but from facts tliat subsequently
came to niv knowledge I came to the
conclusion that I might learn iometliing
by coming on to New York."
“Now tliat I think of it, it’s growing a
little chilly, too,” rejoined Mr. Stapleton,
“and as the governor of South Carolina
once remarked to the governor of North
time between
uaintance with
this boat; sup-
, , , poso we go down stairs?”
pleased at the meeting; but it was too Apparently Mr. Clifton accepted this
late to get out of it, so-he came up; and suggestion; for when, a few minutes
I noticed he only glanced at the lady, as j later, the _ bearded gentleman pushed
if Bhe was some one he had never seen ! epen his blind, the two camp stools were
right man’s papers, and to personate him
—why, then, what on earth could his
object be if not to get tiie property? If
anything, that would be the strangest
case of the two.
“I had been back from Pachuca'just a
week when 1 was told tliat there was a
lady in the house—an English lady—that
wanted to see me. Thinks.I, ‘Now,what
does tills mean? I brushed "myself up"a-
bit and went down* to find out. She was
sitting at a table in the patio, with a cup
of tea in front of her. She was a good
looking woman, and as I judged might
be something under 80 years Old;
“I made my bow, and she asked me to
bo seated After a little talk, says she,
‘I hear you have been inquiring after Mr.
Valentino’—giving his full name, you
understand I told her tliat I had ‘Did
you find him? asked she. ‘I did,’ said L
She seemed a bit excited Or anxious, and
I liegan to have my own ideas; but I
wasn’t prepared for what she said next.
*1 wish you to know that I am his wife,*
she said, ‘and whatever is his business is
mine also.’ ‘I am bound to inform you,
madam,’ I said at last, ‘that his family
has no knowledge of his marriage; they
believe him to be a bachelor.’ ‘I am
aware of that,’ said she, ‘but fortunately
I am in a |>osition to prove what I say,’
.and with tliat she took her marriage cer
tificate out of her pocket and showed it
to me; it was as regular as the multipli
cation table; she was married to him
three or four years ago, in New Zealand
I liadn't a word to say. *1 understand he
has come into his property,’ said she.
‘Well, as to that, madam,’ said I, ‘so he
lias; hut he lias refused point blank to
have anything to do with it.’ She turned
white and looked at me very Bharp.
‘What do you mean? she cried out. ‘Just
what I tell you,’ said I, and then I went
on and gave her the story of my visit to
him.
“Well, that seemed to floor her, at
first; 6lie kept making exclamations, and
saying tilings half to herself, and biting
her lips: it was plain she didn’t know
what to make of it any more than 1 did
‘I must see him? she cried out at last,
jumping up from the table; ‘I must see
him, apd’— ‘Speak of an angel, madam,* \
says 1; ‘here ho 1st’ and sure enough, by
Bail with Kczcina--Hair all Gone—Scalp
Covered "With Eruptions —Thought
ills Hair would Never Grow—
Cured by Cuticura Iteiuc- * • »' UM I
- -I; dies—Hair Splendid
and not a Pimple
on Him Now.
I cannot say enough In praise of the Cuticura
Remedies. A»y boy, when one year of age, was
so bad with eczema .that he lost all of his hair.
His scalp was coveted with eruptions, which
the doctors said was scall head, and that his
hair would never grow again. Despairing of a
cure from physicians, I began the use of the
Cuticura Remedies, ahdf,I am happy to say,with
the most perfect success. His hair is now
splendid, and there is not a pimple on hinu~
l recommend the CuticuraKemedies to mothers
as the most speedy, economical, add sore cure
for all skin diseases of infants and. children,
and feel that every mother who has an afflicted
child will thank me for so doing.
Mrs. M. E. Woodsum, Norway,Me
A Fever Sore Eight Fears Cared.
1 must extend to you the thanks of one of my
customers, who has been cured by using the
Cuticura Remedies, of an old sore, caused by a
long spell of.sickness or fever eight years.ago.
He was s* bad he was fearful he would have to
have his leg amputated hut is happy to say he
is now entirely well, sound as & dollar He re
quests me to use his name, which Is H. H.
, Cason,merchant of this place John V. Minor,
Druggist, Gainsboro. Tenn.
Fever Scalp Disease Cared.
A few weeks ago; my wife suffered very much
from a cutaneous disease of the scalp, and re
ceived no relief from the various remedies she
used until she tried Cuticura. The disease
promptly yielded to this treatnent, and to a
short while she was entirely well. Them has
been no return of the disease, and • uticura
ranks No. 1 in our estimation for diseases of the
skin. Bev. J. Pressley Barrett, p. l> , . (
Relelgh, N. C.
Cuticura Remedies
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before; then he gave me good day, and
took my hand. It was a bit awkward,
I said, ‘1 suppose you will wish to con
verse with your wife alone, sir; I will
leave lyou.’ *My wife? says he; *1 was
not aware there was such a personf ‘Is
not this lady your wife? cried L He
stared at her like a man astonished, and
then at me. ‘I never saw her till this
moment,’ said he. ‘Come, sir,’ said I, *1
have just seen the certificate of her mar
riage with you.’ *Ob, it’s all a mistake,*
put in the lady. ‘I was never married
to this gentleman; I- never 6aw him; I
am the wife of Mr. Valentine.' ‘Well,
and this gentleman is Mr. Valentino,’
said L ‘He may have the same name,
but he is another person altogether,’ said
she. ‘As to that,’said I' ‘you must settle
it between you; Mr. Valentine’s papers
are all correct, and there is only ono
estate in England with the name that his
bears.* ‘But I have proved,* cried the
lady, that I am the wife of- the heir of
that estate; and if this gentleman says
he is tiie heir, I denounce him as an im
postor!’
“At that, I looked at Mr. Valentine.
He had kept his eyes on the lady all the
while, with a sort of perplexed expres
sion; but now he smiled very quietly,
and said he, ‘1 think 1 have beard of this
lady before. I wish to say nothing
against. her. She seems to be in a dilem
ma from which there is no way of extri
cating her. If she wishes'to lay a Claim
to the estates, she can do so only by ac
knowledging me as her husband. But
you have just heard us both declare that
we have never seen each other before.
But she also declares me an- impostor.
Suppose 1 jam; she must find the real man
before she can profit by the inheritance.
If l am not he, where is he? Grant, on
the other hand, that I am he. and this lady
is my wife; I still decline to touch a
penny of the hundred and. fifty thousand
pounds; and what I will not accept she
cannot share. That is logic and law
both, I believe? ”
“Upon my word, Henry CUfton,” ejac
ulated Mr. Bob Stapleton at this junct
ure. “tliis Is about as peculiar a yam as
ever I listened to! It’s as good as a play,
and better too. When you get -to New
York, do you go straight to a manager
and_offer to sell it to . him; and if he
don’t give you a good price forltTm a
Dutchman I” .
“Good or bad,” returned Mr. Clifton,
“it happened just as I tell it you. When
Mr. Valentine said tliat, the lady seeme4
vacant.
[to be continued.]
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No Universal Remedy
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