The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-21
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CHAPTER XII.

at the principal hotel he made inquiries for
the Whitcombes, and had no difficulty in
obtaining their address. 1t was contec-
toners. With a large lunch room In the
rear. Mrs. Whitcombe was behind the
counter. She was a pleasant, motherly
looking woman, without the slightest re-
semblance to her brother.
! "Mrs. Whitcombe," he said, 81 have
looked in on private business. am anxious
to communicate with your brother in Aus
tralia. learned at st. Boniface that you
were his sister, and came to ask you to give
me his address, | am a barrister, and my
clients want some information he may be
able to give them, and that they are ready
to pay for handsomely"
Il have not heard of Tom fes years, sir,'
Mrs. Whitcombe said. He mostly writes
to my brother John, at Woodstock, but
John and my husband are not very good
friends, so | have not heard of Tom for q
long time 1 write to him once year. but
it is long time since be answered me. He
may have moved; he was always restless
chap, Tom, but his last address was Ash
Farm, Brisbane, Queensland. | expect if
he has moved they will send letter on to
| him from there. He has got some stables
in the town, but don't know what the ad-
dress was | have not seen Tom Siace he
was at st. Boniface. His wife-she's dead,
poor thing-was a sort of cousin Of ours.
was staying with Tom and her just after
their marriage, when | first met my nus
ba d, VINO was at st. Boniface, too. Tom
was not the same after her death. My hus-
band SPOKE to him about it, aud so did |,
and he took it in the wrong way, and there
haT wa hat
helped TO decide my husband to give up st.
B0niface and start IN business Tor himself.
Then Tom went away, too, aud never saw
hia afterward. Still the ill-feeling had
passed off, and he wrote to me aud wrote
to him. | suppose there is nothing else l
can tell you, sir"
mo, thank you, Mrs. Whitcombe, am
much obliged to you for your information''
Nj a-d Mrs. Whitcombe hurried off to serve
some customers who mad Just come into the
I shop, and Robert Harbus returned to the
i hotel. highly satisfied with the result of his
I Inquiries.
lit was piece of luck. indeed, he said
to himself, that the porter at st. Boniface
happened to remember about this sister. AS
she was married aud away from Woodstock
and Oxford, her brother did not think it
necessary to warn her not to mention his
address. Not, by the way, that think that
it is his doing. | fancy it is the butchers
imagine that he has been bribed by that
detective to keep it secret from any one
else VI no might come, or he may have
gathered from the inquiries the fellow made
that 1t would be better D. keep it secret until
he heard from his brother, rs to what he
wanted done in the matter. He let out that
he intended to write to him when he said he
might get letter IN three or four months
Gso, whica would be about the time it
would take letter to get there, and another
no Lott
ting there, and l suppose one could not rely
upon an answer IN less time than that.
should like TO have INDUCED in the luxury
OF going back to the fellows shop, and tell
ing him that he had a letter from his
brother only the day before, but it would
not have done. 1t is possible that l may
nave to negotiate with Thomas Morson
although him, and it would be a bad Begin
nhg TO have row which might end in my
having to give him a thrashing. Well, I
am lalrly tired, for have been going ever
since this morning; now l must see what
II t me nrst train that goes at decent hour
n DlGcot, and catches down train there
vow VIII smoke pipe and turn in. |
Fould give fifty pounds out of my pocket
know who that fellow was who has been
+ torehand with me.n
u MS was the story that Robert Harbut
7 9laOeo 10 Miss Peyton and the two girls on
j IS return to Bath the day.
Ven, Inihk you have done have ex-
=. SeulnRly wen, Robert Miss Peyton said.
| lned to be cross because YOU did not write
US Yesterday, but see that your time
as Iully occupied. | think, upon the whole
W. our news Is as good as We can expect what
you say. my dearg'
vi, very much better, Miss Peyton:
onaerIuiiy better, think l thought Mr.
ndind. nllgne nave had great difficulty in
"a hntIf
au quite made up my mind that if he
4 a. earn a anything about him he would find
III T.. a.. Ae was dead, Now we know that he is
VI We ana where he is. i don't know how
~ .qank you enough, Mr.. Harbut.n
Il 4m very pleased with you, Robert
ar D tbo. said, declsively, land con-
mat you have fully justified nv
81 opinion of you. shall probably saw
rVeS asionn upon aho'uer
a are we in the way. Hildas" Miss Peyton
no, auntie, the matter can stand over.n
~ WV ~ harbut Laughed; he was in high
ian, nus at his success.
"u' an ne said, IF | had but run against
hothsay last time was here: what a
u would have been, we have lost three
n b Les, Robert" Miss Peyton said, "but if
rau met him and heard this story every
5ion "oulu De changed. Neither Hilda
Wlght have come to know Miss Cor
nOD 10 not see that the delay is of any
- Aquence"
pun would be of no consequence at all.
frU reyton, If it were not for the seedy-
S man In the shiny hat. Whoever is
% ing lug MN he has got a long start of us.
o uas been time for letter from him
sH SuU 70 Australia and for an answer to
II a. MIR. Harbut," Constance agreed:
-,,nor nv !ou see we do not know whether the
'i'D' s oa. at Woodstock was any more com
1--we to him than he was to you. He
r? eve mad instructions from his brother
give his address, and may have re-
in ID w.. W. 10 SO until he wrote out to Queens
Sae a obtained his reply"
s %at Is SO, Miss Corbyn. 1t may be that
tOT1S va came In that very letter that he
'IViV' W. Two days ago, and that he has al
M ~ a ninunicated the address to the man
w yae shiny hat" '-o AiA''"
?. se y 10 you suppose he could want
'p MS address secret?" Constance
I'D caIk that he is playing deep game.
~'yn' My theory is this--I think