in all my professional experience lord if you had seen him the brightest young chap and he was what some folks well bom too he was the that is though in a left handed sort of way it s � of mad of about whose death the papers were so full a month ago or so and that in my judgment was the secret of all his misfortune it was the blood as did it to take his own way in the world to seek nobody s advice nor use it if twas given to be spoiled and by all the women and half the men as came nigh him to own no master nor authority to act without thought and to scorn well that was bt ed in ihe bone with him then he had never any one to look after him at home i reckon mr f well yes he had a mother and though she was a queer one too she loved him dearly she was the woman used to say as ever he had to do with and a perfect lady too mind you she worked to get the poor ud off like a slave and when all was over instead of breaking down aa most would she swallowed her pride and went down on her knees lo that old devil the and to his son in likewise they lived down cross key where was it � at and begged and prayed him to join in i in her son s favor she got down there the very day after his lying daughter was married to solomon he as has got and is a big man now but he ll never he any thing but a lot if he was to be king o i shall never forget the way he insulted that poor young when he was took up i would have ven a ten pound note to have had charged with something and i d ha seen that the weren t loo big for his wrists neither and this refused to help did he f why of course he did he broke her heart poor soul i saw her when she passed through afterward and she looked twenty years older than before that trial even then she didn t give the matter np but laid it before the crown but poor had offended � helped some fool or another through one of them public he had wits enough for any thing had that young fellow but i can t a bear to talk about him and yet somehow i can t help doing on it when i get into this room he sat just where that gentleman sits yonder i think i see him now smoking the best of cigars one of which he offered to me � for he was free as free but i was to restore it for i couldn t take a gift from one as i was just a going to thank yon says i but let us have no misunderstanding and no poor fellow poor fellow no more was said about the of richard but it was evidently a standing topic with the of the george and club a yearning to behold and embrace that mother who bad done and suffered so much his sake took possession of richard s soul his heart had been against her when he found under her roof the objects ef his and but he felt now that that must have come lo pass with some intention of benefit to himself the very truth indeed upon him that she entertained some plan of his revenge against with the idea of protecting him from the consequences that were to from it and he forgave her while he hated his foes the more he would out his design to the but very cautiously and with a that he would certainly not have used bad his own safety been alone concerned and then when he had himself and her he would disclose himself to her the statement he had just heard affected him deeply but in opposite ways the justification of himself in no way moved him � he did not need that it was also far too late for his heart to be touched by the expression of the old s good will though the time bad been when he would have thanked mm for its utterance with honest tears but the revelation of his mother s toil and suffering in his behalf al ills love for her while it made his purpose firmer than ever lo be the of her enemies and his own as he went to bed that night the clock struck twelve it was just four and hours since he had left bis victim in the of if a free pardon could have been offered to him for the crime and the mine been filled with gold for him to its mouth he would not have stretched out his hand to save him in the chapter mr for his indifference to the wares of lie news boy hy sending him next morning to the station for all the local papers in each rs he expected was a paragraph headed and as an account as ingenuity devise of the unaccountable departure of mr solomon from his house at the missing man was much respected and as the prosperous owner of the mine which had yielded so largely so many years he could certainly not have been pressed by and therefore the idea of was oat of the unlikely as it seemed in the of one who knew the well the most probable explanation of the was that the unfortunate gentleman in taking a walk by night along the top must have slipped into the sea the weather had been very rough of late and the wind blowing from off the land which would have accounted � if this supposition was the body 