to some discoveries and to the s � power over the w family � as i the assume � unless the filial affection of his daughter could be secretly influenced from allowing any investigation of the affairs to be ever made the said � � deemed it expedient to have a bond ready by him as from mr w for the before mentioned sum of twelve six fourteen two and nine with interest stated therein to have been advanced by � � to mr w to save mr w from though really the sum was never advanced by him and has long been replaced the to this instrument to be executed by mr w and by are by � i have in my possession in his i of david hand and pocket book several similar of mr w s signature here and there by fire but to any one i never any such document and i have the document itself in my possession with a start took out of his pocket a bunch of keys and opened a certain drawer then suddenly himself of what he was about and turned again towards us without looking in it and i have the document mr read again looking about as if it were the text of a sermon in my possession � that is to say i had early this morning when this was written but have since it to mr it is quite true assented cried the mother be and make terms i know my son will be gentlemen if you give him time to think mr i m sure you know that he was always very sir it was singular to see how the mother still held to the old trick when the son had abandoned it as useless mother he said with an impatient bite at the handkerchief in which his hand was wrapped you had better take and fire a loaded gun at me but i love you cried mrs and i have no doubt she did or that he loved her however strange it may appear though to be sure they were a congenial couple and i can t bear to hear you provoking the gentlemen and of yourself more i told the gentleman at first when he told me up stairs it was come to light that i would answer for your being and making amends oh see how i am gentlemen and don t mind him why there s mother he angrily retorted pointing his lean finger at me against whom all his was as the prime in the discovery and i did not him there s would have given you a hundred pound to say less than you ve out i can t help it cried his mother i can t see you running into danger through carrying your head so high better be as you always was he remained for a little biting the handkerchief and then said to me with a what more have you got to bring forward if anything go on with it what do you look at me for mr promptly resumed his letter only too glad to to a performance with which he was so highly satisfied third and last i am now in a condition to show by � s � false books and � s � real beginning with the partially destroyed pocket book which i was unable to comprehend at the time of its accidental discovery by mrs on our taking possession of our present abode in the or devoted to the reception of the ashes on our domestic hearth that the weaknesses the faults the very virtues the parental affections and the sense of honor of the unhappy mr w have been for years acted on by and to the base purposes of � that mr w has been for years and in every conceivable manner to the pecuniary of the false and grasping � that the object of � � was next to gain to subdue mr and miss w of his views in reference the personal history and experience to the latter i say nothing entirely to himself that his last act completed but a few months since was to induce mr w to execute a of his share in the and even a bill of sale on the very furniture of his house in consideration of a certain to be well and truly paid by � � on the four common quarter days in each and every year that these beginning with alarming and accounts of the estate of which mr w is the at a period when mr w had launched into and ill judged speculations and may not have had the money for which he was morally and responsible in hand going on with pretended of money at enormous interest really coming from � � and by � � obtained or withheld from mr w himself on pretence of such speculations or otherwise by a miscellaneous catalogue of � gradually until the unhappy mr w could see no world beyond as he believed alike in circumstances in all other hope and in honor his sole reliance was upon the monster in the garb of man � mr made a good deal of this as a new turn of expression � who by making himself necessary to liim had achieved his destruction all this i undertake to show probably much more i whispered a few words to who was half joyfully half sorrowfully at my side and there was a movement among us as if mr had finished he said with exceeding gravity pardon me and proceeded with a mixture of the lowest spirits and the most intense enjoyment to the of his letter i have now concluded it merely remains for me to these and then with my ill family to disappear from the landscape on which we appear to be an that is soon done it may be 