The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-10-04

AT once aV6rreO Jnat Sno detected
strong difference between the two men,
who bore so extraordinary a resemblance
to each other, when placed together,
while Colset was now as positive of Wv
ian's innocence as he had been certain of
his previous guilt.
CHAPTER XxxvI.
In the drawing room at DIR. Rodney 5
home III Denslow, the evening following
the trial at Colsct, was gathered a little
company, consisting Of Sidney Vivian,
Cecil Dare, Conrad Markham, Ajalma,
Lazrio, the Doctor, and Bella.
You have heard me explain" Conrad
Markham was saying, chow | have fol-
lowed the man, Robert Margrave, for
years. He who has SO nearly caused grief
and woe to almost every occupant Of this
room. have explained all that he has
done since his advent in England have
told you how | recovered the diamond
which have restored to these two faith
full Indians, and the money which belong
ed to Sidney Vivian. There is only one
point ON which there is any need to throw
light, and that is the period intervening
between your abandonment i'll India,
Cecil Dare, and your companions escape
From Robert Margrave's own lips,
and from watching him, ! am enabled to
know all You, Cecil Dare, have spoken
Q: manuscript which one Low Gray
found near here, which | dropped, and
which gave thorough account Of the facts
of my object in pursuing Robert Mar
grave have only to speak Of Margrave's 5
plaza plan beginning in India, and end
ing here.
when Robert Margrave defrauded
your establishment in India, he fled to the
interior When the first year had passed,
he was wont to return in disguise to Cal
cutta. BY some means he learned all con
cerning your business, and that Of Sidney
Vivian. He ascertained your status here
in England, and he devised plot which
your visit to the Buddhist temple facii-
tated to operate.
"When you and Sidney Vivian entered
the temple, he watched you. He was
familiar with it, and when you left he
threw off his disguise and entered Laz-
rio sat before the idol. In a moment he
had wrenched the Jewel from the idols
forehead Lazrio saw him, and inasmuch
as Sidney Vivian had been in there few
moments before, accompanied by you,
Lazrio believed the thief to be Sidney
Vivian, as Robert Margrave had in
tended
That same night Margrave resumed
his disguise He returned to the temple
and stated to Ajalms that he knew where
the Jewel and its thief was.
He went to Vivian room, drugged him,
and conveyed him to the temple. Then
having left him III the power Of the In
dians, he returned to Vivisn's lodgings,
dotfed his disguise, clothed himself in
Vivian's apparel, and appropIiating his
money and goods, set sail for the ship on
which you, Mr. Dare, were waiting for
him, and which lay in the harbor ready to
sail So great was his resemblance to
Sidney Vivian, that even Vivian's former
landlord bade him farewell, under the i'm
preston that he was really addressing Sid
ney Vivian.
at was dark when Robert Margrave
came to the ship, and, he pleading sick
ness, you, Mr. Dare, did not see him
until the third night out. Then he came
on deck You suspected his real identity
After a few moments conversation, he
made a sudden grasp for your pocket
book, failed, and then flung you over
board.
HE came to England, believing you
drowned, aud little knowing that you had
been rescued from q Xatery grave. The
rest you know"
With the authors privilege, wepass over
a period Of one week since the explana-
r
the denouement of our narrative by de-
failing the ultimate fates Of those who
have enacted part in one little life drama
The two In1ians, Ajalma and Lazrio
we're eager to at once return to India, and
although they offered Markham liberal
reward for restoring tbs diamond to them,
he refused the gift Now that he had
gained the one great object of his life, the
conviction Of Robert Margrave, he was
restless and aimless. The consciousness
that in tracing his enemy he had been the
instrument through which the happiness of
the Rodney family had been insured, gave
him pleasure, but he was 10th to remain
where the saddest Of memories would as
sail his mind and render his grief too poign-
ant for endurance.
81 cannot remain here. he had said to
Cecil Dare, the day when the young man
had redeemed the mortgaged estates at
Denslow 81 have now no motive in
life, and this hum-drum existence in Eng
land would kill me"
And then he had sought Marcia Donald
son, or Margrave as her right name proved
to be.
IL am going away" he said quietly. lis
your life so inseparably linked to that man
that you cannot accompany me. He has
forfeited all claim to you, and you will soon
be free to marry again. If you can know
no happiness with me, you may at least
find a kind husband and home Of com
fort"
She took his hand gently.
"You have been a good friend to me,
Conrad, she said tearfully, "but even now
after all my husbands neglect and evil
deeds, my love for him is unchanged.
cannot leave here. | am a miserable wo-
mango" she faltered.
He left her, sadly, and within day OF
two had set sail from England, bound for
foreign shores.
Tom Gray, who had been SO opportune
in his first recognition of Cecil Dare, was
restored to service at Denslow, and Robert
Margrave expiated his crimes without
meeting a felon's doom. Unworthy oi
sympathy, for he preserved reckless in
different feeling to the last, he found nc
friends save one. The woman whom he
had so neglected and deserted, and who
had remained true to him to the last, ii
that awful moment when but few hour
would elapse ere her husbands sentenct
was to be carried out, conveyed to him {
poison. The next morning he was removed
from his cell, dead, while his wife, the
broken-hearted Marcia, was missed for sev
eral days. A body in the river, found sew
eral days later, indicated her doom Sh'
had committed suicide in her misery anC
anxiety TO escape the woe of living.
|. Mr.. Yorston, and his firm friend, Mr.
Leroy, often visited Cecil Dare and hi
beautiful wife ut Denslow-for one month
after the reunion, Bella Rodney and Ceci
Dare were welded. Doctor Rodney founC
. pleasant home with his son-in-law, who's,