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to bury the child within the copSe. lot
Norton Sowcrby had believed there
would he ample time for that before
the poison which he had given should
commence to exert its influence.
He was not to know that he had
miscalculated, and that its eetfcts
upon his agent had been almost i'm
mediate.
At the next town at which the coach
had arrived. and which. fortunately,
was soon reached. Jonas hurried to n
surgeon with the poor infant and its
wound was dressed.
A minute later and no human aid
would have awaited to save the poor
child
Jonas bore with him his slight bur-
den to London, and to the founding
hospital. where the infant was re-
ccived. but with no hope that it could
survive beyond Il bw hours.
That journey from which Jarvis had
lust arrived had been the last that he
was to travel westward.
The next day lie became guard of a
mail coach. whose route from London
was toward the north of England.
And ut that time. too. his sister had
been grooming With the SORROW be-
and died.
And then. absorbed With his own
grief and his care for the little Or
phancd Edwin. but small thought cast
Jarvis toward the child he had placed
within the founding hospital.
Not a word had Jonas heard con-
corning Arnold Lindsay and the muir
der ut One Tree Square.
PAT y,1,a,, ot 1nnpth limo had Soft
cned his grief for his sisters loss and
he had begun again to feel some i'll
tcrest in the world which but for his
adopted nephew would have continued
hateful to him, he upbraided himself
for the long neglect of the infant
whom he had rescued and concerning
whom he had not since inquired.
lie resolved that if he should find
that child still living he would then
ut once set about inquiries concerning
Il mystery which long before it should
have been his cndcavor to elucidatc.
In June, 1909. Jonas Jarvis returned
to the founding hospital and was told
that the child which he had there de-
posted in February. 1907, had but
few days previously been resigned tg
the care of n Mr.. Norton Sowerby.
who had declared his wish to adopt
an orphan TO be the consolation of the
poor mother whose infant he had two
years before placed within the hos
ptal. and which had died there some
few months after it had been received.
So that it was not her own child
which Nortons wife had embraced i'll
dying; and Soweiby had unconsciously
adopted the infant whose bones lie
had believed We're Wondering within
the unconsccrated grave to which
Nicholas Sherman would have placed
the little being lis cowardly and rock
less hand had deprived of life.
Yes. Norton Sowcrby, to his present
mad but useless rage. had reared to
manhood the real and veritable Wis
count Darclcigh.
Ample proof was afforded that Jonas
Jarvis had indeed saved the victim of
the three assassne of One Tree
Square.
And Theodore was now second
time indebted for his life to Forrcs-
tcrs uncle. for the young man would
not have survived dishonor.
And the old coachman's consolation
now for his silence of years before
was, that his production of the child
he had saved would not have rescued
Emmclinc's father. who would still
have been falsely convicted of the at
tempt to slay, and would have equally
persisted.
Emmelnc's noble efforts had sic
ceeded, and confidence in heavens aid
had never entirely abandoned her. for
poor Mrs. Lindsay's dying blessing
had been with her daughter always.
Norton Sowcrby was already on his
way to prison when those who had
been sent to arrest Mrs. Chcsterton
We're demanding an entrance to her
| house.
The wrctchcd woman had observed
those men from the windows of her
drawing room and but too terribly I'M
dcrstood that the moment of her doom
had mt length arrived.
"Oh. my daughter-my poor Azure
liar' she moancd. While straining the
unhappy girl in last embrace.
The next moment she had carried Ia
her lips the poison which from her
acconpic" she had received; and
when presently the officers dashed into
tile room. they found the woman thcy
had hoped to capture extended on the
floor. Willie Aurelia, whose :,,'m WAS
partly cncircling her mothers rc, *
WIS pfOSlflle DcSlue tuc Suliiy III
genia.
Both were, for the time. c.lua..v Eic
less. but the daughter revived to he
vail the calamity that nj l befall"l
her. The mother was fore"cr Stilct
ami guilty life had been terminated
by n crime.
She had lived accused Of heaven
and. a suicide. her body was thlriwl
into an unbleSt grave.
OF the three assassins Of ime I-c'
Square the master" only Lied as al
deserved to die.
Norton Sowcrby alone Of the tire
persisted on the scatro.d. and s!ul
bornly and impenitently did he Ell
counter his doom.
} Mrs. Chesterton's daughter, sent i'm
mediately away from England, WA
never permitted rightly to understan
of what her mother had been guilty.
She was well protected by the youn
Niscount Dareleigh and amply dowere
by him when, about two years nftc
her mothers death she became a hal
py wife.
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