The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-02-12

From Chambers Edinburgh ~Journal.l
Cpnssssiosis OF ana Attorney.
nIaAMY ON No BIaAMY2
/ Concl4aed.)
received In due course a letter from
Inundated the day alter his arrival there
It twas anything but a satisfactory ONE
The date on The grave-stone had been tru-
ne represented and Mullins, who erected
II was a highly respectable mnn Flint had
atkab seen The grave digger, but could make
nothing oil hun There was ,nJ regular
N~registeti Of denths' kept in words except
Tint belonging to Cunningham; and the
minister;Who buried Gosford, and who liv-
Jedatsthat time in Dublin, had been dead
some time. This was disheartening and
lme!.anebnly enough; and, as if to give our
unfortunate client the CUP de grace, Mr..
Jacksoif junior marched into the Office
jipst after ! Lad read it, to say that, hnv.
80 ing 'bsen referred to us by Lady Seyton
ior; explanations with respect TO a state.
inert made by a Mr.. Edward Chiffon to
the Honorable James Kingston, for whom
they, the Messrs. Jackson, were now act
.sx4iug, by which it appeared that the said
rEi Honorable James Kingston vas, in fact,
4 True Earl Of Seyton, he, Mr.. Jackson,
junior, would be happy to hear what | had
" q ssay upon the subject. 1t needed but
this. Chiffon had, as | feared he would,
after finding we had been consulted, sold
hissecret, doubtless advantagcously, to the
ieir-at-law. There was still, however a
chance that something favorable might
sit tprR. up, and us | had no notion of throw
ing thar chance away, | carclcssly rcplicd
H3as that we had reason 10 believe Chilton's
~ story was a malicious fabrication, and tina,
& we should Of course throw ON them tho
81 onus of judicial proofthat Gosford was still
S,&galivc when the late Earl's marriage was sol
emnized. Finally, however, to please Mr..
eiEJackson, who professed to be very anxious,
for The lady's sake, to avoid unnecessary
heelat, and to arrange tho 1ffair IS quietly as
,s.eJHoss'ble, l agreed TO meet him a, Lady
Seyton's in four days from that time, and
tathear2t the evidence upon which he relied
This could not at all events reader our
tsspositioni worse: md it was meanwhile
agreed that the matter should DO kept as
laEas possible profoundly secret.
Three days passed without any further
tidings from Mr.. Flint, and l vehcnen,ly
feared that his journey had proved a fruit
sgolessone, when, on the evening previous
" to5thc day appointed for the conference at
seyton House, q hackney coach drove raI-
idly up to the Office door, and out popped
Mr. lint, followed by two strangers whom
80 he very %watchfully escorted into the house.
Mr.. Patrick Mullins and Mr.. Pierce Cum
ningham,' said Flint, rs he shook hands
with INC in a way which, in conjunction
Win the merry sparkle Of his eyes, aud the
shoEs'crous tone of his voice, assured me
ali was right. mr.. Pierce Cunningham
VII! sleep here tonight he atdeG; so
sl-Golllns had better engage n bed OUT
r.. ftsI- y sTinpipuh,,n -, iii iooI;- I. r r ,
low, mnttered that he chose TO sleep at a
tavern
Not il I knew it, my fine fellow re-
joined Mr.. Flint. you mean well, | dare.
say; but l cannot lose sight Of you for all
shat. You either sleep here or at n station
house,
The man stared with surprise and alarm;
but knowing refusal or resistance to be
hopeless, sullenly assented TO tho arrange
p,ent, and withdrew 10 The room appointed
foI8liim. yigilantly guarded. For Mr..
Mullins we engaged a bed at a neighboring
tavern.
MIR. Flint's mission had been skiIfully
and successfully accomplished. He was
convinced, by the sullen confusion Of man
ncr manifested by Cunningham that some
vi!ianous agency had been at work. and he
again waited on Mullins the stone. cutter.
.. 'tiiN gave 1Ou ttG pVueE lot the grave
sionc!' he asked. Mr.. Mullins referred to
his book, and answered that he received j,
by letter. Had he got that ~le,tcr!' Very
likely he replied, as he seldom DESTROYED
business papers Of any kind A search
was instituted, and finally this letter. said
Mr.. Flint worth an cari's coronetl torn
and dirty rs It Is, turned up. This ~inva.ua-
htc document, which hore the london post
date nj June %, 1892, ran as follows:
tt.ANGLEsEA HOTEL, HAYMARKEr, LON.
poH, June %, 1881.
~'SiR-Please 10 erect a plain tombstone
al The head Of Charles Gostord, Esquirc's
grave, who died a few months since a,
.Swcr,.s aged thirty-two years. THIS is all
tias ucrd be inscribed upon it. You are
referred 10 MIR. Guinness Of Sackville
street, Dabi.n, for payment. Your obedi-
cent servant.
EDWARD Chiffon.
'you scc,' continued Flint, the fellow
had inadvertently lott out the date OF Cos
.%forl's death, merely stating il had occurred
a icw months previously; and Mullins
concluded thai, in entering the order in
his day-took, he must have somehow or
Other conrounded The date of the letter with
tia; OF Gosford's dcceasc. Armc with
,!,:s precious discovery, | again sought
Cunningham, and by hint ri promises mud
threats, at last get the truth out OF the ras-
cal. 1t was this: Chiffon. who returned
TO this country from the Cape where he had
resided for three years previously, about
two l1onlhs ago, having some business tn
settle III Dublin, went over there, and one
day visited Swords, read the inscription on
Charles Gosford's grave-stone. and im,nc-
dia'o!y sought out the grave-di gger, and
asked Im il he had any record Of that gen.
l.emun's burial. Cunningham sad he had,
ardtpro!uced his book, by which it appear.
I'D hat i; took place December ~, 1881.
A'la.at cannot be-" remarked Chiffon, and
he referred TO the head atone: Cunning
ham sad iia had noticed the mistake a few
days Tier it was erected; but thinking it OF
no consequence, and never having, tha, he
knew Of. seen Mr.. Mullins since, he had
sad, and indeed thought, nothing about il.