The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-12
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
CHAPTER XIX.
Continued


He hated Colonel Osborne with all
his heart. 1t was regret to him that
the days of duelling were over, so that
he could not shoot the man. And yet,
had duellipg been possible to him, Col
onel Osborne had done nothing that
would have justified him in calling his
enemy out, or would even have enabled
him to do so with any chance of induc-
ing his enemy to fight. Circumstances,
he thought, were cruel to him beyond
compare, in that he should have been
made to suffer so great torment without
having any Of the satisfaction of re-
venge. Even Lady MilbOrOugh, with
all her horror as to the Colonel, could
not tell him that the Colonel was amen
BILE to any punishment. He was advised
that he must take his wife away and
live at Naples because of this man, that
he must Danish himself entirely If he
chose to repossess himself of his wife
and child, aud yet nothing could be done
TO the unprincipled rascal by whom all
his wrongs and sufferiDgs were occasion
ed. Thinking it very possible that Col
Onel Osborne would follow his wife, he
had a watch set upon the Colonel. He
had found retired policeman,-a most
discreet man, as he was assured, who,
for a consideration, undertook the man
agenept of interesting jobs of this kind.
The man was one BoZzle, who had not
lived without o certain reputation in
the police courts. In these days of his
madness, therefore, he took Mr.. BOzzle
into his pay; and after awhile he got a
letter from Bozzle with the Exeter post
mark. Colonel Osborne had left Lon
don with ticket for LessborO'. BOzzle
also had taken a place by the same train
for that small town. The letter was
written in the railway carriage, and, as
Bozzle explained, would be posted by
him as he passed through Exeter. a
further communication should be made
by the next days post III letter which
Mr.. Bozzle proposed to address to Il. A,
Post-office, Waterloo Place.
On receiving this first letter, Trevel-
yam was in an agony of doubt, aS well
as misery. What should he do7 Should
he go to Lady MilbOrough, or to Stanbu-
nv; or should he at once follow Colonel
Osborne and Mr.. Bozzle to Lessboro'. 1t
ended in his resolving at last to wait for
the letter which was to be addressed to
z. A. But he spent an interval of hOr-
rible suspense and of insane rage. Let
the laws say what they might, he would
have the mans blood, if he found that
the man had ever attempted to wrong
him. Then, at last, the second letter.
reached him. Colonel Osborne and Mr..
Bozzle had each of them spent the day
in the neighbOrhood of LesSboro',. not
exactly in each others company, but
very near to each other. "The Colonel
had ordered gig on the day after his
arrival at Lessboro' for the village of
Cockchatfington, and, for all Mr.. Boz
zle knew, the Colonel had gone TO Cock
chaffington. Mr.. Bozzle was ultimate
ly inclined to think that the Colonel
had really spent his day in going to
Cockchaffington. Mr.. Bozzle, himself,
knowing the wiles ofsuch men as Colo
nel'Osborne, and thinking at first that
that journey to CockchaffingtOn might
only be deep ruse, had walked over to
Nuucomb0 Putney. Then he had had a
pint of beer and some bread and cheese at
Mrs. Crocket's house, aGd had asked va
rious questions, to which he did not re-
ceive very satisfactory answers. But
he inspected the Clock House very min
utely, aud camc to decided opinion
as to the point at which it would be at
tackled, if burglary were the object of
the assailauts. And he observed the
iron gates, anI the steps, and the shape
of the trees, and the old pigeon house
looking fabric in which the clock used
10 be placed. There was no knowing
when Information might be wanted, or
what information might not be of use.
But he made himself tolerably sure that
Colonel Osborne did not visit Nuncombe
Putney on that day, and then he went
back to LcSsboro'. Having done this, he
applied himself to the little memOran-
dunn book in which he kept the records
sfthese interesting duties, and entered q
claim against his employer for a convey
ance to Nuncombe Putney and back, in
Guiding driver and ostler; aud then he
wrote his letter. After that he had
hot supper, with three glasses of brandy
ana water, and went to bed with a
thorough conviction that he had earned
his bread on that day.
iue ietter to L. A. did not give all
THESE particulars, but l. did explain that
Colonel Osborne had gone off. apparent.
~, to Cockchaflington, and that he (Boz.
zie) had himself visited Nnnrnmbe Pnt.
ney.
"The hawk hasn't been nigh the dove
cot as yet" said Mr.. b 'zzle in his letter
meaning to be both mysterious and IA
cetious.
1t would be difficult to say whether
the wit or the mystery disgusted Ire
velyan the most. He had felt that he
was defiliug himself with dirt when he
first went to Mr.. Bozzle. He knew that
he was having recourse to means that
were base and low,-which could not be
other than base or low, let the circum-
stances be what they might. But Mt.
Bozzle's conversation had not been
quite SO bad as Mr.. Bozzle's letters; as
1t may have been that Mr.. Bozzle's sue