Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-12

fraudulently conspdre with her and did
pass yourself falsely as her legitimate
father"
At the name of Arabella Crewe the
man had leant, almost fallen, back in
his chair, staring at the old lawyer,
peechless-holding his breath, 1t SEEM
ed. He was completely taken aback.
"You might have just knocked me
down with a feather" he said after
wards
In the dead silence which followed
the lawyers words the keen. dark eyes
covertly watching the entrapped man.
well, said Mr.. Digby at last, as
Crewe began to rally, lis it to be peace
or war? This woman-your neice-is
not, | must say, worth your putting
yourself into an ugly fix about"
mo, by Heaven!" exclaimed Crewe,
striking his fist angrily on the table,
land don't mean to neither since it's
come to the point somehow, it seems,
worthless baggage! She was worse nor
her mother. They've both disgraced a
respectable family. Mabeps was bad
enough, and just broke our poor old
fathers heart, it did, sir, and Almost
mine, too, then. And when this gal,
too, disgraced herself, the deuced hus-
sy, and wouldn't even marry Gale, I
was mad over it and wanted to hide her
shame anyhow"
And principally because she promis-
ed you gold for aiding her vile deceitn'
muttered the listener, with boiling
blood, as George got UP IN his excited
rage and walked to and fro several
times
I don't care" he said at length,
flinging himself back again; what it
matters, or why you want me for a
witness amt no account to me; and If
it's somehow to punish that jade she
deserves it. Look We here, mister. Give
me your pledge as l shan't be hoped
on for that business. and let me see the
colour OF your money now, and I'm
your man. I'll tell you everything and
hand over all letters you want. That's
fair and square, guess"
quite, and / accede." Mr.. Digby
coolly drew forth a crisp fve-pound
note and laid 1t before Crewe. THAT
as an earnest of good faie. Another
shall follow when your story is told
and the said LETTERS handed over. And
later there will be more forthcoming
for loss of time, trouble and so forth"
added the visitor. meaningly. Il may
spare us both much time by at once
saying that / am already acquainted
with the whole story concerning Gale
and the marriage"
Crewe looked at him very much as il
he would like to have said: Then why
the deuce do you want more than that?-
What is it to you whether it was her
father or uncle-or Beezlebub, who
gave her away as her fathcN?" But he
did not say it. He was shrewd and
mercenary and saw that, having been
outwitted somehow for some reason, his
safest and best course to get money and
liberty was to accept defeat since moth
ing was TO be gained by an opposite
course, not even the credit of his family
responsibility.
Look here, then, sir" he said, fold
ing both arms on the table, at won't
take long TO tell. Mother was dead
was nineteen. apprenticed to the fancy
business in London. AMI Mabel was
twenty-Rt home with father in Read
ing. She was very pretty and vain, and
spofIt by her father; but she wasn't so
callous and bad as the gal was, for af-
forwards Nab WIS sorry. / think, for
the disgrace she brought on US. For,
mind you.she always admitted to me,
whela years after see her again that
her lover hadn't never deceived her.
He'd said plain what he meant and she
went OF with him with open eyes"
Who or what was he them"
oh. nobody - t. birth" said