Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-06

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for a week. I bade her good-day, and
went to the depot. The train was on
time, and I reached the London depot
at the hour specified. Here a messen-
ger awaited me with a note. Mr.. Big
nall had gone to No. - Chapel street,
Islington, and my assistant was on the
watch. At that number 1 ascertained
lived a Mr.. Brown and his wife and
daughter. The daughter had recently
got married and gone away. said the
grocer. Had he seen the bridegroom?
q, yes; he was a very young, good
looking fellow. Anything like this
portrait? That was the man without a
question. What like a man was Mr..
Brown? Tall, stout, dark hair and
beard. and so forth. Was he much
away from home? A great deal, and
he had just returned that afternoon,
after a long absence.
HI LITTLE PLOT.
"Then MI. Bignall was Mr.. Brown
in reality, and had two wives, and he
had married the heir to a handsome
estate to his daughter! That was the
little plot.
81 called on Mr.. Brown and saw Mr..
Bignall. His son-in-law. l said, re-
quested me, as [ was coming to town,
to hand Mrs. Brown that likeness of
him. Mrs. Brown was delighted. Mr.,
Brown smiled all over, and offered me
gin. 1 was going back that evening
had they anything to send? Yes, GER
tainly, if l would be so kind. A parcel
was put up and handed to me.
"'Suppose, now,' l said, I was to
forget this on the train. 1t has no adj
dress, and would be thrown aside or
appropriated
"'That is so,' said Mr.. Brown, and
he wrote an address upon it in a bold
hand:
EMO. Is st. Georges Terrace.
"'Grayesend.'
81 babe them good-by, and was on
my way to G~ravesend in two minutes.
l caught the 1850 train at London
Bridge, and at 9:15 was standing at the
door of No. % St. Georges Terrace.
"The next minute I was in the pres
ence of George Gleig. Fortunately his
wife was not present.
".Mr. Gleig, l said, feeling justified
in lying, your father is dead, and your
presence at home is required immedi-
ately.'
"The young fellow burst into tears
and %upbraided himself bitterly for not
being at his fathers bedside in the last
moments. urged him to conrol him
self and come away with me at once.
"'But my wife, he said; i must take
my wife with me-
"'You must not 1 said: I know
you i married, but your mother docs
not, and in her present condition it
would be unkind to infict upon her
more pain than you have already done
by your unexplained disappearance
".I can not leave her here to starve,'
he said.
"'1 have made ample provision for
that 1 said; you can leave with her a
couple of hundred pounds which I will
give to YOU
"'But she is out and won't return
before midnight, he said, almost pee
vishly.
"'Write a note and inclose the
money. He is the paper. Now sit,
down and I'll tell you what to say
"He sat down and wrote from my
dictation. The notes were inclosed and
the letter sealed and delivered to the
landlady. Then we started for the
depot, and reached London in time to
catch the express train north. We
in Leicester till the morning and
then went over to Sileby.
81 can'tdescribe the meeting between
mother and son. He was Somewhat
surprised to find that his father was
still alive, and still more gratitied to
see that his father recognized him.
THE SEQUEL.
''Well! Can't you guess the rest?
Bignall or Brown was a bigamist, to
begin with. After he married Mrs.
Gleig, he learned all about the estate
to which Dr.. Gleig, her brother-in-law,
was heir, and his condition toward the
last. When he was gone George would
inherit, and suppose before then he
married Miss Brown? Brown went
to Oxford, put up the job with Binker,
and once with George Gleig under his
eye, he 20 managed the rest. He
brought his daughter, who was a dash
ing blonde, to Oxford and took care
that George should see her. The girl
had learned her lesson and knew what
a big fish she might hook. She led the
youth on until at last he yielded and
made him her abject slave. Then in
came the outraged father, weeping and
forgiving, and was about to tear away
his daughter and send her to an insti-
tuition. She wept and chung to George,
and George swore he would never leave
her, and then it was proposed he should
marry her. They took the midnight
train for London, disguised, and next
day the father took care to see his
daughter safely married. That done,
he dispatched the new couple to his
sisters at Gravesend to await develop
ments.
"What became of Georges wife?
Well, it so happened that she had an
other husband with a prior claim to
Georges. In hunting up testimony
against Bignall for hi gamy, 1 found it
ran in the family. We let the girl go,
but the father was convicted at the Old
Bailey and went into retirement for
seven years. h-CincinmGS Enquirer.
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