The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-08

Certainly not and before twelve days |
are past you will have returned from |
Ireland. The agreement may be- thought, |
of use with Cunningham er Mullins. LII |
they have been conspiring together, they |
will scarcely admire the light in which |
you can place the arrangement, as afford
ing proof that he means to keep The lions |
share of the reward to himself
Exactly. At all events, we shall get
at the truth, whatever it be-"
The same evening Mr.. Flint started for
Dublin via Holyhead.
received in due course a letter from
him dated the day after his arrival there.
1t was anything but a satisfactory one.
The date on the grave-stone bad Been
truly represented, and Mullins, who
erected it,, was a highly respectable man.
Flint had also seen the grave-digger, but
was no regular register of deaths kept in
Swords. except that belonging to Gun
ningham; aud the minister who buried
Gosford, aud who lived at that time in
Dublin, had been dead some time This
was disheartening aud melancholy enough;
and, as if to give our unfortunate client
the "coup-de-grace, Mr.. jackson, Jr.,
marched into the Office just after had /
read it, to say that, having been referred
by Lady Seylon to us for explanations,
with respect to a statement made by a MIR.
Edward Chiffon to the Honorable James
Kingston, for whom they, The Messrs.
! jackson, were now acting, by which 1t
appeared that the said Honorable James
Kingston was, in fact, the true Earl Of
| Seyton, he, Mr.. jackson, JT., would be
| happy to hear what | had to say upon the
subject! 1t needed but this Chiffon had,
| as feared he would, after finding we
had been consulted, sold his secret, doubt
less advantageously, to the heir-at-law.
| There was still, however, a chance that
! something favorable might turn up, and,
as / had no notion of throwing that chance
away, | carelessly replied tuat we had
| reason to believe Chilton's story was a
malicious fabrication, and that we should,
| of course, throw on them the onus of judi
| cial proof that Gosfe I'd was still alive
when the late Earl's marriage was solemn
lied. Finally, however, to please Mr..
| Jackson, who professed to be very anxious
| for the lady's sake, to avoid unnecessary
| eclat, and to arrange the affair as quietly
as possible, agreed to meet him at Lady
! Seyi on's in four days from that time and
hear the evidence upon which he relied.
| This could not, at all events. render our
| position worse; and it was, meanwhile,
! agreed that the matter Should be kept, as
far as possible, profoundly secret.
Three days passed without any further
tidings from Mr.. Flint, and vehemently
feared that bis journey had proved fruit
less one, when, On the evening previous
to the day appointed for the conference at
Seyton House, a hackney coach drove
rapidly up to the Office door, and out
popped Mr.. Flint. followed by two stran-
gers, whom be watchfully escorted into
the house.
"Mr. Patrick Mullins and Mr.. Pierce
Cunningham" said Mr.. Flint, as he shook
hands with me in way which, in con-
junction with the merry sparkle of his
eyes, and the boisterous tone of his voice,
assured me all was right. Mr.. Pierce
Cunningham will sleep here tonight, be
added; so Collins had better engage a
bed cut
Cunningham, an Unlocking lout of
fellow, muttered that he chose Ito sleep
at a tavern"
mot if 1 know it, my fine fellow re-
Joined Mr.. Flint ''Y GU mean well, dare
say; but cannot lose sight of you, for all
that. You either sleep here or al station
house."
The man stared with surprise and
alarm; but knowing refusal or resistance
10 be hopeless, he snlIenly assented to the
arrangement and withdrew to the room
appointed for him, vgila7tly guarded.
For Mr.. Mullins we engaged a bed at a
neighboring tavern.
Mr. Flint's mission had been skillfully
and successfully accomplished. He was
convinced, by the sullen confusion of
manner manifested by Cunningham, that
some villainous agency had been at work, |
and he again waited on Mullins, the stone
cutter.
who gave you the order for the grave
stone?' lie asked Mr.. Mullins referred |
to his book, and answered that he received |
it by letter. Had ne got that letter?"
very likely, he replied, "as he seldom
destroyed business papers OF any kind"
IA search was Instituted, and finally |
the letter." said Mr. Flint, worth an |
Earls coronet. torn and dirty as it is,
turned up"
This invaluable document which bore
the London posit-date of June %, 1864, |
ran as follows:
ANGLEs1A HOTEL, HAYMARKET,(
LONDON, June o. 1864.
SIa-Please to erect plain tombstone at the I
head of Charles Gosford, Esquire's, grave, who
died a few months since at swords, aged thirty /
two years. This is all that need be inscribed upon
it. Yeu referred to Mr.. Guinness, of Sackville
street, Dublin. for payment. Your obedient sery-
ant, EDWARD Chiffon.
"You see, continued Flint, "the fellow
had inadvertently left out the date of
Gosfsrds death, merely stating it occurred |
a few months previously; and Mullins
concluded that, in entering the order in
his day-book, he must have somehow or
other coufounded the date Of the letter
with that of GOsford's decease. Armed
with this precious discovery | again sought
Cunningham, and by dint of promises and
threats, at last got the truth out of the
rascal. 1t was this: Chiffon, WHO returned
TO this country from the Cape, where he
bad resided for three years previously,