Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-08-22

could speak were either like Mr.. Wyr
yard, SO possessed by belief in Mr.. Hal
groves cleverness and honesty, that the
made no account of my speaking; OF, lik
my Uncle Lister, who predicted mischief
but stood obstinately aloof from meddlin
to hinder it. He was mortified that m
fathers will excluded him from all interes
in me and my affairs; and whatever wrat
he may feel against my trustees and thei
agent, will, ,of course, be amcliorated by til
reflection that they have only justified hi
doubts, and fulfilled his predictions"
''It is no laughing matter, Pennie. Til
roguery of the agent is dishonour to tn
| trustees"
"For the money itself am absolutely in
different; but l hope Mr.. Hargrove may b.
caught and punished for his iniquities.
have no tenderness for knaves- monet"
Pennies mouth closed firmly at the lasl
word, and remained closed several minutes
MIR. John Hutton had only seen her once
at his sisters wedding, since the merr,
Christmas at Brackcnield, and he was sur
prised to find into what practical little
lady the Quixote of that memorable time
had developed. Flo liked her none the less
for the change. She waited outside the
telegraph office at Kirkgate while her cs-
cort went in, and despatched his messages
to the police at various points to be on the
lookout for the fugitive lawyer; of whose
person he sent o sufficient description to
guide them in their pursuit, until the NOR
rows post brought the clerks letters. This
business accomplished, Pennie and he,
talking of affairs all the way, rode back to
Eastwood, whittier Francis had already car
ried the intelligence of Mr.. Hargroves inva-
sion. @56e m
The next day was dreary and wintcrly
desolate everywhere, but nowhere more
dreary or winterly desolate than on the
Liverpool landing stage, alongside which,
about two o'clock of the afternoon, lay the
Ariel, getting up her steam, to go down the
river with the tide. The wind howled with
a low, menacing monotony; the water
heaved and plunged in heavy sullen waves,
and the opposite shore was scarcely seen
through the reeking fog. 8a
Not a soul was on the landing stage but
those who had business there, of whom one
was short, thick-set, broad-yisaged police
detective in plain clothes, who passed fire.
quently with an air of Jealous occupation
between the vessel and the shipping office,
a notebook and pencil in his hand. The
heavy luggage of the passengers had been
all got on board, and most Of the passengers
themselves; but few lingerers came drop
ping in after the rest, execrated the abomi-
nable weather, and disappeared into their
cabins to prepare for the miseries of the
voyage. Almost at the last moment, when
the Ariel was painting and throbbing for a
start, tall, stout man, with close-shayen,
purple-red face, and white muller wrapped
in numerous folds about bis throat and chin,
appeared hurTying down from the town. A
policeman who had been pacing his icy beat,
always within hail of his superior, at sig
nal from him turned and followed the last
conner, and just as he was about to set foot
on the deck of the Ariel, the detective laid
firm hand on his breast, and said, sNIr.
Hargrove, of Allan Bridge?"
ssNo, 7r.. Oonyers, OF Gatesneao," re-
Piled the tardy passenger, with well-stimu-
lated astonishment.
The detective, however, politely persisted
in OBTAINING him, and in reiterating his first
interrogstory, until there emerged from
some furtive watch-post on board the Ariel,
that bane of the lawyers existence, Jacques
the grazier, who joyously Unidentified him
as Mr.. Hargrove, with his black whiskers
shaved off and asked him il it was not Q
queer coincidence that he should happen te
be in Liverpool, and that his cousin in the
police should know it, just when an Eskdalt
man was wanted to help catch an Eskdale
rogue. jacques was not person Of delicate
mind, and had no sympathy for genius in
misfortune. He insisted on telling the agent
who submitted to inexorable fate without .
murmur, how he happened to be there, do
ing stroke of business in Irish pigs, whcr
his cousin let him know that he could de
a service to his country. San proud am
to ha' done it, concluded he, making Har
grove bow; ''thof it is at your expense
sir. 1t has been Almost as exciting as rat
hunt" NJ
Mr.. Hargrove did not sail in the Aric
that afternoon, and before night II wa'
known at Allan Bridge and ..at Eastwol(
that he was in safe custody. After three o.
four embarrassing interviews with the mag
istrates, first in Liverpool and then in his
own neighborhood, he was then committed
to take his trial on the charge of forging
signatures to power of attorney, by whicl
he had sold out and appropriated variou
moneys in the public funds, trust-money
invested in the names of Robert Wynyard
Esq, of Eastwood, and George Grey, Sur
geon, Of Allan Bridge, for the use of Pene
lope Croft, their ward. There was multi
tude of mirror frauds and peculations laid t
his account, from which others amongst hi
clients suffered and the wholesale destruc
ton of documents he had made before hi
flight caused the investigation to be yer
tedious. 1t was not probable that com
plete clearance of his affairs would ever b
accomplished; but it was early ascertaine
that nothing of her splendid fortune re
manned to Penelope Croft but Haggcrsto
Mills, and small farm which her fathe
had owned before the railway mania iloaie
him into sudden opulence. What the fraui
ulent agent had done with his spoils coul
not be discovered, but ii was conjecture
that he had placed them in American sect
rites, and that when he had undergone til
term of seclusion which the law might AZ
sign to his crimes, he would retire to I'll
States, and enjoy the fruits of his labour
The case was very complicated and yer
bad, and as bail was utterly refused, MI
Hargrove had to take up his involuntaril
cold lodging in Norminster Jail, to ava
the coming on of the spring assizes.
!; While the exposure of MI. Hargroye
/ fraudulent transactions were in progres
the extent of the Eastwood liabilities W,
| also revealed. Money had been raised
i Mr.. Wynyard's name, for which his esta
was now indebted, that had never been al