The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-11-18
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f1e regarded t.4p musk again, seriously
this time, and twiddling his thumbs OBJ
served:
well. really, l do not see any great cause
for exultation over this affair, for IL Miss
Bell consents your friend, Mr., Gordon, may
lose his sweetheart, and if she refuses he
may as certainly lose considerable part of
his fortune"
II was not thinking Of that" confessed,
sobered at once by this plain statement of
the position. But George Gordon will be
back before they could be married"
"That depends on variety of circum-
stances over which we have no control In
the first place, we must not count too sure
ly upon Mr.. Gordon's escape We have to
trust to the honesty of Mr.. Lazarus, the
good faith of Peter Shemyl, the dishonesty
of long line of officials, and at any point
we may be deceived. Then, again, three
weeks is a long time, and q clever rascal
may do much before it expires. If Miss
Bell consents, he will naturally hurry on
the marriage. With a special license, they
might be married in few days. If Miss
Bell was engaged to Mr. Gordon only three
or four months back, she would probably
wish to avoid publicity and be glad to get
it over as quickly as possible. The mo-
ment they are married it is pretty Ger
tain that Kavanagh will accept the terms
offered by the Potteries company and
decamp, taking Miss Bell with him and
leaving her father to make the best terms
he can with the company. That, think, is
fairly presumable when we bear in mind
the nature of this unmitigated scoundrel
and the extreme danger in which he stands.
On the other hand, IL Miss Bell refuses to
be his wife, we may be equally confident
that he will put his threat into practice
sell up everything and fly-t one induce
ment to sexpose himself to the risk of dis
covery and punishment being gone. Do
you follow mes'
"Yes; you have made it more clear to me
than 1t was did not think that they
might be married so quickly. oh, if George
Gordon comes home too latei 1t is terrible
to think of that"
I'VE must prevent anything of that kind
happening if we can"
"1ell me what we can do" said eagerly.
At that moment Miss Janet Pelham,
having changed her silk, came down in her
stuff and appeared at the door.
"a little five minutes:" her brother sug-
gcsted, with the cheerful manner and CHR
rupy tone of canary asking for sugar
Miss Janet withdrew, with discreet CO.
lerity.
'Do you think it probable that Miss Bell
will accept Kavanaghf" asked the solicitor
'She has known him long while, and
they have always been friends George
Gordon has been made to appear false and
wicked. She does not love any one else
and she looks upon kavanagh as a good
and most generous man, and he is hand
some to look att
"Then the probability is she will accept
him. Now ! understand your delight in
making this discovery. Believing that the
marriage would be delayed for the ordi-
nary length even of short engagement, you
perceived that Kavanagh would be de-
tanned in London until the time when Mr.
Gordon may, and, as we hope, will arrive
to confront him."
mo. | did not think of that. 1t was
selfish consideration that made me hap
py."
"Well. be that as it may, my dear young
lady, such consummation is possible
and encourages us to regard the affair in a
hopeful spirit Now, do you think you
can find means OF learning what answer
Miss Bell givesf"
"Yes. believe can learn that"
"How soon after the event, do you sup
pose?"
1.-The day after perhaps-on the Mon
day"
'That would do. Where will you acquire
this information2'
I'm Surrey"
"You could telegraph at once to me-the
single word Yes or NO"
ITO you, at your officer"
Precisely. If Miss Bell refuses, we
must take proper measures to prevent the
Potteres company making any payment TO
kasanagh; II she consents, we must find
means of warning Miss Bell to delay the
marriage. The course to be taken in either
case necessitates the utmost precaution.
but we have nll the week before us for con-
sidcration and reflection, and so, think,
we may safely dismiss the subject for the
present and let the maid bring up the sup.
peri