r chapter and mr r w at length and e that it the twilight was beginning to close in when mr alighted from a coach at his own door and knocked softly the door being opened a sturdy man got out of the coach and himself on one side of lie steps while another man ii o b ed on the box dismounted too and stood up n the f at a sign from mr they helped out a third man and taking him between them hurried him into the house this man was they walked in the same manner up ihe stairs without speaking and mr preceding them led the way into a back room at the door of this apartment who had ascended with evident reluctance stopped the two men looked to the old gentleman as if for instructions he knows the said mr if he or moves a finger but as you bid him drag him into the street call for the aid of the police and him as a in my name how dare you say this of me asked how dare you urge me to it young man replied mr him with a steady look are you mad enough to leave this house him there sir you are free to go and we to follow but i warn you by all i hold most solemn and most sacred that the instant you set foot in the street that instant will i have you apprehended on a charge of fraud and robbery i am resolute and if you are determined to be the same your blood be upon your own head what authority am i in the street and brought here by these dogs asked looking from one to the other of the men who stood beside him � b the torture the protracted anguish of that i know how and wearily of that wretched pair dragged on their heavy chain through a world that was poisoned to them both i know how were by open how gave place to dislike dislike to hate and hate to ud til at last they the bond asunder and retiring a wide apart carried each a fragment of which nothing but death could break the to hide it in new beneath e looks they your mother succeeded she forgot it soon but it and at your father s heart for years well they were separated said and what of that they had been separated for some mr and your mother wholly given up to c had utterly forgotten the young ten good years her junior who with prospects lingered on at home ho fell among new friends circumstance at least you know already not i turning away his eyes and i his foot upon the ground as a man who is determined to a everything not i your manner no less than your actions ass you have never forgotten it or ceased to think of it with bitterness returned mr i speak of years ago when you were not more than eleven years old aad your father but one and � for he was i repeat u boy when his father ordered ih to marry must i go back to events which cast a shade upon the memory of your nt or will you spare it and disclose to me the truth i have nothing to disclose rejoined must talk on if you will these new friends then said mr naval officer retired from active service whose wife had d some a before and left him with two there had been more but of all the family happily but fi survived they were both daughters one a beautiful of nineteen and the other a mere child of two or years old what s this to mo asked they resided said mr twist hear the in a part of the country to which your father in his wandering had repaired and where he had taken up his abode acquaintance intimacy fast followed on each other your father was gifted as few men are he had his sister s soul and person as the old officer knew him more and more he grew to love him i would that it had ended there his daughter did the same the old gentleman paused was biting his lips with his eyes fixed upon the floor seeing this he immediately resumed the end of a year found him contracted solemnly contracted to that daughter the object of the first true ardent only passion of a girl your tale is of the longest observed moving in his chair it is a true tale of grief and trial and sorrow young man returned mr and such tales usually are if it were one of joy and happiness it would be very brief at length one of those rich relations to strengthen whose interest and importance your father had been sacrificed as others axe often � it is no case � died and to repair the misery he had been in left him his for all � money it was necessary that he should immediately repair to home whither this man had sped for health and where he had died leaving his affairs in great confusion he went was seized with mortal illness there was followed the moment the intelligence reached paris by your who carried you with her he died e day aft her arrival leaving no will � no will � so that the whole property fell to her and you at this part of the recital held his breath and listened with a face of intense eagerness though his eyes were not directed towards the speaker as mr paused he changed his position with the air of one who has experienced a relief and wiped his hot face and hands before he went abroad and as he passed through london on his way said mr slowly and fixing his eyes upon the other s 