The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-26

first request on coming of age! Could
turn guest, though uninvited, out of q
house that was not my own? A guest, in.
deed! swindler, blackguard, probably
paid to amuse the uncle, and keep him of
the scent"
His voice rose higher and higher as he
proceeded; at the end he actually shrieked.
But this was unbearable. My own temper
had been severely tried, and endure more
could not and would not.
"Mr. Merrick," 1 said. hotly. "sucl1
language, even under the circumstances
Cant you leave off acting, even now p
he burst in. "C0nfound your gaping
look of innocence! DO you see this RI
he cried, exhibiting crushed letter
which he kept clenched in his hand.
"They are married by this time, and
your villainy has 80 far succeeded; but
the triumph shall not last long. I will
hunt the scoundrel, and his contempt.
bic accomplice-yes, you-through eve.
~ law court in Europe; / will publish
his infamy in every newspaper, and
proclaim it throughout the civilized
world! You shall not escape me-you
shall not!"
The mailman shook his fist in NV face,
and glared at me like tiger; but stag.
gered as I was by such revelations and
accusations, nevertheless made one more
attempt at protest. =" Your nephew
My nephew" he yelled, edo Won
think that reptile is my nephew? No my
fine keeper. l am no longer your dupe;
can see now through your shallow sham
vpniru opSA I rNesynp 90 l.
Do you hear. leave it instantly, or I will
pointing to the door as he spoke.
hesitated; Fate seemed too cruel. l
felt that the smallest justification or ex.
PLANTATION would lessen my misery: but.
before sound could pass my Inns, he
had raised his hand, with the savage men,
ace, Zone word more, and I give the
order"
There was nothing for me but to re-
treat; and retreat l accordingly did from,
the room, and from the house, leaving in.
structions with the servants to send nv
belongings to the railway station-that sta
ton from which l had driven only a few
days before with such pleasurable emo.
tions and ambitious hopes.
Mr.. Merrick's unexpected reading of
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to climax. 1t was not enough to have
been the tool, the dupe, the cat's.paw of
one l believed my best friend; was also
to be stigmatized as the confederate, the
paid agent of plot of which was the
principal victim. Truly, had reached
the summit of human wretchedness.
The whole of the scheme which Miss
Tor Mrs.) Bella SO obligingly called q
harmless stratagem," unfolded itself by
degrees to my minds eye; and, struggle
as 1 would. 1 could not Danish the thought
of how the designing pair must have
chuckled over my credllity, and watched
with malicious amusement my unremit-
ting devotion to the avuncular conquest.
The last drop of bitterness had been
poured into my cup; lifetime of expe.
rience had been crowded into the space of
a few days, and, swallowing my humilia-
ton as best I could, returned to London
"a wiser, if not better, man.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that,
long before the return of the bride and
bridegroom, Mr.. Merrick had resigned
himself to submit peaceably to the inev-
table; and nothing more was heard of
the terrible vengeance destined to over
take Fred Clayton and his guilty accom-
plice.