The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-04-01
CHAPTER x.-YATHEB BKNwKrLs
coRREsroNDRNCE

| 40 mr.. B1trnk0-Prlvnt0 and conf
dential-Sir: I understand that you
connection with the law does not es
clude your occasional superintendent
OF confidential inquiries which are no
OF . nature to iniure your professions
position. The inclosed letter OF intro
duction will satisfy you that am in
capable of employing your experience
In manner unbecoming to you or I.
myself.
"The inquiry that I propose to 20,
relates to q gentleman named Winter
field. He is now staying in London, o
Derwents hotel, and is expected to ro
main there for week from tho presen
date. His place of residence is on tn.
North Devonshire coast, and is well
known in that locality by the name O.
Beaupark House.
"The range Of my proposed inquiry
dates back over the last four or five
years-certainly not more. My object
is to ascertain, as positively as may be,
whethor, within this limit OF time,
events in Mr.. Winterfeld's life have
connected him NTH young lady named
Miss Stella Eyrecourt. If this proves
to be the case it is essential that ]
should be made acquainted with the
whole of the circumstances.
81 have now informed you OF all thai
want to know. Whatever the informa-
tion may be, it is most important that
it shall be information which can i'm
plicitly trust. Please address to me,
when you write, under cover to the
friend whose letter inclose.
81 beg your ACCEPTANCE time is
OF Importance check for prelimin-
ary expenses, and remain, sir, your
faithful 90 vant,
"AMBRosR BKNwKrL.
N.
" To As Ssreary. Society Of Jesus,
kome.
~ inclose . receipt for the remit
tance which your last letter confides to
my care. Some Of the money has been
already used in prosecuting inquiries,
the result Of which will, as hope and
believe. enable me to effcctually pro-
tect Romayne from the advances Of
the woman who is bent on marrying
him.
"YOu tell me that our Reverend
Fathers, lately sitting in council on the
vange Abbey affair, are anxious to hear
II any positive steps have yet been taken
toward the conversion OF Romayne. i
am happily able TO gntify their wishes,
"a you shall now see.
Yesterday called At Romayne's
hotel to pay one Of those occasional
visits which help to keep up our ac-
quaintsnce. He Was ont, and Penrose
(for whom I asked Aext) was with him.
Most fortuaatel y. as the event proved,
! had not seen Penrose, or heard from
him. for some little time, and I thought
It desirable to judge for myself of the
progress that he was making in the con.
adence Of his employer. said 1 would |
wait The hotel servant knows me by
sight. I was shown into the waiting. |
room.
"This room is 80 small as to be q
mere cupboard. 1t Is Lit by glass
lanlight over the door which opens
rom the passage, and is supplied with
lir lin the absence Of fireplace) by q
Tentilator in a second door, which COM
nunicates with Romayne's study. Look
ng about me, so far, crossed TO tho
'ther end Of the study and discovered q
iining-room and two bedrooms beyond
the set Of apartments being secluded.
~ means Of door at the end of the
passage. from the othor parts Of the
aotel. / trouble you with these de-
ails In order that you may understand
he events that followed.
II returned TO tho waiting room, not
orgetting. Of course, to close the door
of communication.
"Nearly an hour must have passod
'efore l heard footsteps in the passage.
The study door was opened, and the
'oices OF the persons entering the room
cached me through the ventilator. II
ecognized Romayne, Penrose-and
lord Loring.
"The first words exchanged among
hem informed me that Romayne and
lis secretary had overtaken Lord Los.
ng in the street as he was approach ing
he hotel l-door. The three had entered
he house together at time, prob
'bly, when the servant who had ad.
nitted me was out of the way. How
'ver it may have happened, there I
vas, forgotten in the waiting-room
"Could intruds myself ION private
perhaps)-as an unan-
iounced and unwelcome visitorr And
'ould help it. il the talk found its
Vsy to me- through the ventilator, along
nth the air that I breathedf II our
tevsrend Fathers think was to blame,
bow to any reproof which their strict
'ense OF propriety may fnfiict on me.
n the meantime I beg TO repeat the in
eresting passages In the conversation.
9 nearly word for word IS l can remem-
,er them.
"His iordahip. ~ the principal per
onage In social rank. shall be reported
Inst. He said. 'More than q week
'As passed, Romayne, and We have
eisAsR ssen Jon NOR heard nom you.
Why have Jon neglected psr /
"Hsse. judging BY certain sounds
hat followed. Penross got mp dis
sssGiy. and leit the room. Lord LoF-
p wont on. st1ffffd ttt5li tAal
"Hs said 70 Ronsynss Nov vo ere
lloaAs ! may speak 70 you more freely.
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