Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-10-04

the question Is answered. You knew,
but my lord did not know, that the
| bride could not come to the church.
You were there therefore to take her
place. You Joined In this conspiracy
and kept silence for the reasons con.
tanned In this document"
"Quite so. And now. sir. what next?
Will you bring my lord to Justice?
Shall / have to give evidence against
! himT'
MADAM, l know not. You have done
your best, not 80 much to repair q
great wrong as to stop further wrong.
If / understand matters Alright, 1t will
be impossible to recover anything that
has been taken"
"You might as well hope to recover
sack Of Goals already burned"
Therefore. what we have to do first
Is to stop further pillage. Next I ap-
prehend, we must make 1t clear that
your signature in. the register was
false"
Lady Anastasia rose and put on her
domino again.
81 am going back to London, sir.
MY house Is In Hanover square, where
am to be heard of for the present It
was a bad days work when was mar
ried In that pink cloak. 1t may prove
a worse days work when confessed"
"Nay. madam" said quietly. "Can
It be a bad days work to stop cruel
and unfeeling robbery?"
II have done my part, gentlemen,
for good or for III. In few weeks or
months the man would have beggared
himself as we'll as that poor girl. Now
he is beggared already. know not
what be will do nor whittier he will
turn"
So | led her back to the Crown, and
that same day she took her departure,
and / have never seen her since. One
letter. it Is true. had from her, Of
which will tell you in due course.
Then l returned to Mr.. Redman.
Jack" he said. II am going without
further discussion to warn the mana
ger not to send any more money to
these attorneys and to disregard their
orders. | shall write at once warning
them that we have now in our hands
clear proof that my client is not mar
ried to Lord Fylingdale and that we
are now considering in what manner
we should proceed with regard to the
large sums that have been remitted by
his orders. This. Jack, is the way OF
lawyers. We write such letter. know
Ing that we shall not proceed further
in this direction. for the scandal
would be very great and the profit
would be very small. Besides. there is
the awkward fact that we made no
protest. but submitted. Yet sure and
certain | am that the other side will
not dare to 60 into court. being con-
scious Of guilt. yet not knowing how
much We have learned"
My story is nearly finished. Molly
recovered her freedom. with the loss
of by fer the greater part OF her for
tune. She had. indeed, nothing left ex-
cept her feet and the trade carried on
By the firm In which she was sole part
npr Still she remained the richest wo-
man In the town.
Here follows the letter from the
Lady Anastusia MY dear Jack" she
said. news reaches Lynn slowly, II 1t
gets there al all: therefore ! hasten to
inform you that an end has come, per-
haps the end that you would desire.
My lord Is no more. am q widow.
Yet | mourn not. My husband during
the last ~ months had acted as one no
longer in command Of himself. | can.
not think. indeed that be had been In
his right mind since be entered upon
that great crime Of which you know.
He would have gone from bad to worse.
and | should have suffered more and
still more He killed himself. he
placed the muZZle of pistol within
his mouth and so killed himself.
1T was yesterday. went to see
him bad to tell him what ! had
done. expected he would k1ll me.
Perhaps 1t would have been better had
he done so.
II found him with his attorney, a
man named Bisic, whom / have seen
with him frequently.
pray. madam, take q chair. am
your humble servant. You can CO. said
my lord. You have my instructions,
Mr.. Bisic. Order the manager to pro-
ceed with the sale of the ships
"'With submission. my lord. We can
send him orders. 'ut we can only make
him obey by proceeding according to
law. He finds excuses. He makes de-
lays. He talks Of sacrificing the ships
to q forced sale
"'You will not proceed according to
law, my lord told him.
"'Why, madam?
"'Because l have been to Lynn my
self and have explained certain points
In connection with the marriage serv-
Ice in st. Nicholas church,
"AIy lord looked at me in his cold
way as If neither surprised nor moved.
".A1r. Bisic,' he said, 4 will commu-
nlcate again with YOU So the attor-
ney left us. Then he turned again to
me.
"'My lord,' repeated, 4 have made
q statement of all the facts
"T thank you, madam; thank you
with all my heart. Let me not detain
you
"He said no more, and rose. But the
door was thrown open, and Mr.. Purden
walked in without being announced.
"'Ha,' he said, seeing me, we are all
three, then. together again! My lord,
will not waste your time. I have
come to explain that since you have