rather as it afterward proved you would have ruined me he said sternly so why should you not be done by as you intended to be done by others there s scripture authority fur that old ark grinning now at bay looked round and saw that was against him so that there was no hope of mercy he covered his face with his hands and staggered against the wall near the door for a moment there was silence for although neither nor pitied the scoundrel having an unusually tender heart did so perhaps the feeling that the man was his old school fellow induced him to give a chance of escape but be this as it may when the sobbing near the door suddenly opened it and dashed out made no immediate effort to stop him did stop thief stop liar stop murderer he and followed was thus compelled to pursue the although he did so reluctantly the two came to the door to see down the avenue and dashed after him the flew like the wind and speedily his but he was not to escape after all for as he reached the open gates of the avenue s car containing swept round the comer running blindly tripped and fell under the machine the wheels passed over him breaking his back he was picked up stone dead chapter xxi a final surprise at the held on the body of the unfortunate e whole story of the events connected with the will of john was related in detail this was done by the advice of so as to further trouble as the wisely pointed out it was necessary that the characters of all those in the affair should be cleared once and for all this could only be done by the truth being made public and this course of greatly recommended itself to who was tired of doings he was of a frank nature and the idea of hiding this and concealing that annoyed him exceedingly he therefore made a clean breast of the matter when called upon to give evidence regarding s death and insisted that else should do the same consequently the whole amazing story appeared in print and read like a romance was inclined to hold back from giving evidence as of course he should have with the police the moment he became that a murder had been committed but both his cousin and insisted that he should come forward to state what he knew and notwithstanding his reluctance he was compelled to do so he escaped better than he deserved as it was seen how difficult his the lost position had been and the majority of people argued that the man could scarcely have been expected to himself by drawing attention to the crime at the time when he discovered it mrs also contrived to reproof as she cleverly stated that when in possession of the will she had intended to hand it over to the squire of course knew that she had never meant to do this but for the sake of he did not contradict her statement and because of s feelings he was glad to think that had got off so lightly the two themselves were much relieved that their characters had not suffered to an extent and retired into the grateful shade of obscurity as speedily as possible things had turned out better than they had expected s conduct of course was condemned since he had behaved so but not so severely as it would have been had he been alive having met with a violent death it was felt that he had paid for his and as little as possible was said about him of course was with regard to the accident as proved that the young man had sounded his horn when turning into the park but anxious only to escape before the could take him in charge had either not heard the warning of the horn or had not attended to it but be this as it may there was no doubt that he had ran on blindly and thus had fallen under the cruel wheels of the car remembering s two about walking over his grave in the avenue thought it quite that he should have met his fate on the very spot but he only remarked on the matter to a final surprise who was wise enough to hold her tongue enough had been said about and his doings in the newspapers so there was no need to say more mr did not appear at the as he lay dying in a comfortable bed under the hospitable roof of the big house but he signed a written statement the events of the night when he had been struck down and this satisfied both and jury after all evidence had been a verdict of death by was brought in and the matter ended in the only way it could end s sole relative a clerk in the war office came down to take charge of the body but expressed little surprise at the reputation of the dead man had always been a black sheep and his relative grimly said to that he was glad things had turned out as they had he observed would sooner or later have come to prison or the gallows had he lived being one of those unfortunate creatures who could not run straight so that was the end of the squire s old school friend who had chosen evil instead of good and bad as he had been was kind hearted enough to regret the man s miserable end afterward he always tried to remember as he had been at rather than as the of his more ma � ture years with the departure of the s body in charge of his relative from departed all mystery it is now known who had struck down the and why the blow had been delivered that 