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


We found the drawing of Seyton
House occupied by the Hon. James King
ston, his solicitors, the Messrs. jackson,
Lady Seyton and her father and sister, to
whom she had at length disclosed the
source of her dfsquietude. The children
were leaving the apartment as we entered
it, and the grief-dimmed eyes of the
Countess rested sadly upon her bright
eyed boy as he slowly withdrew with his
sisters. That look changed to one of wild
surprise as 1t encountered Mr.. Flint's
shining, good-humored countenancs. /
was more composed and reserved than my
partner, though feeling as wildly as he
did the satisfaction of being able not only
to tlispel Lady Seyton's anguish, but to
extinguisn the exultation and trample on
the hopes of the Honorable James Kings
TOP, a stiff. grave, middle-aged piece of
hypocriticaI proprieiy, who was surveying
from out the corners of his affectedly
unobservant eyes the furniture and deco
rations of the splendid apartment, and
hugging himself with the thought that all
was his! Business was Immediately pro-
ceeded with Chiffon was called in. He
repeated his former story verbatim, and
with much fuency and coDfidedce. He
then placed in the hands of jackson, Sr.,
the vouchers signed by Cunningham and
Mullins, The transient light faded from
Lady Seyton's countenance as she turned
despairingly, almost accusingly, toward u.s.
What answer have you 70 make to this
gentlemaas statement, thus corrobor-
ated ?" demanded jackson, Sr.
"Quite a remarkable one, y replied Mr..
Flint, as he rang the bell. Desire the
gentlemen in the library TO step up, he
added to the footman who answered the
summons. In about three minutes in
marched Cunningham and Mullins, fol-
lowed by TWO police officers An IRE
pressible exclamation of terror escaped
Chiffon, which was Immediately echoed
by Mr.. Fint's direction TO the police, MS
be pointed toward the trembling caitiff
THAT is your man-secure himp'
A storm of ordinations, questions,
remonstrances, instantly breke forth, and
it was several minutes before attention
| could be obtained for the statements of
our two Irish witnesses and the reading
of the happily-founs letter. The effect
of the evidence adduce@ was decisive
electrical. Lady Seyton, as its tull sig
nificance flashed upon her, screamed with
convulsive joy, and | thought must have
tainted from excess of emotion. The
Rev. John Hayley returned audible shanks
to God in voice quivering with rapture.
and Miss Hayley ran out of the apart
ment aud presently returned with the
children, who were Immediately half
s-uothered with their mothers ecstatic
sses. All was, for few moments, joy,
rapturei Flint persisted to his dy ing day
that Lady Seyton threw her arms around
his neck and kissed his bald old forehead.
This, he~ever, csnnst personally vouch
for, as my attention was engaged al the
moment by the adverse claimant, the
Honorable James Kingston, who exhibited
one of the NEST irreslstib'y cemic, woe
bsgone, lackadaisical aspects it is possible
to conceive. He made ahurried and most
undignifed exit, and was Immediately
followed by TIE discounted 'fanily'
solicitors Chiffon was conveyed to a
statiop-house, and the next day was com
mitted for trial. He was convicted at the
next sessions, and sentenced TO seven
years transportation and the celebrated
firm of Flint & Sharp derived considerable
lustre, and more profit, from this success
fUI stroke of professional dexteritv.