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gateway, where from the shadows Into
the warm sunshine beyond stepped the
young lady whom he had seen FIRST In bis
fathers house. His astonishment was
great. but the young lady's surprise WAS
still more strongly marked. She stopped.
clasped her hands together, and then
came on again, with two large clear gray
| eyes distended.
"Mr, Culwick! you In Worcester! You
have repented; you are going to your
fatherT
Reuben shook his head and smiled a
little.
"You are a foolish fellow" she said,
"and almost aA strange q man as your
father ID. Are you still living down that
wretched street In CamberwsllY'
II can only afford TO live In wretched
Streets" was the reply.
What has brought you TO Worcester"
ITO SEQ Aunt Eastbell," he replied.
"and to discover, II possible. the mystery
Of my aecoud.cousln Sarah. They are
my relatives: am more interested In
them than ! can explain. May ask
In return what Aunt Eastbell and my sec
ond-coualn has TO do with your
II am interested In them more than
/ can explain" was the arch answer;
that's ALL"
IL wish you would explain something
Who are you. 20 begin wlthr"
"Ah, that's not worth elucldatIon?' she
said. III | tell you that my name Is
Holland, will that make the position any
clearerr
''It might" said Reuben, quickly. MY
father yished me to marry q Miss Hol-
land once, a young lady whom had new
er seen, and whom l was TO take upon
trust Are you the ladyr
"YeA, sir"
"And have you married my father In.
stead Of met he asked, satirically.
Il would not marry either Of you for
twice your fathers money" she said,
frankly. Il am simply his housekeepcr,
at housekeeper's wage. My father was
his best friend. and your father has been
kind TO me. In his odd way, since my
fathers death"
"And now," said Reuben. "will you cx-
plain why you are interested Ia Aunt
Eastbell. why the girl who has deserted
her corresponds with youi why you pass
yourself OF as the niece Of that old
woman who has left usf"
'I'll work backward. II you will allow
me" she said, II call myself Miss Mug
geridge because the name OF Holland is
familiar 60 your aunt. The girl CORE.
sponds with me because she knows that
l read her letters to her grandmother
and that am the grandmother's friend
while she ia away. | am interested In
Mrs. Eastbell, and feel for the utter lone.
illness In which she is left by her friends.
have been interested In Mrs. Eastbell
for some years now. for the matter Of
that"
Indeed! and her granddaughter, Sarah
EaAtbell, also2"
''0f late days--a little. She was not
very gracious TO me-she never cared to
see rue here. When she got into trouble,
she thought that she would make me her
conhdante, but II was too late"
"When she got into troubled" echoed
Reuben; what trouble was that?"
''Come with me, ard I'll show you"
She led the way out Of st. 0swald's =
into the Tlthlng, crossed the road to the
corner Of the street leading TO the prison,
and pointed to the wall, In which several
bills were posted. One WIS to the effect
that reward Of Ave pounds was offered
for the apprehension Of Sarah Eastbell,
late Of Worcester, who had consplred
with others for the unlawful issue of spu-
rious coin.
Reuben stared with amusement at the
piacard
"It IL well that the old woman Is
blind" he murmured. II did not think IL
was 40 bad as this"
Neither ID It,"
"You mean that"
''That her brother Is at the bottom of
II. You don't know what scamp he Is,
suppose2 He gave her the money, | be.
lieve. She offered sovereign In all good
faith--it was detected as false coin
she was asked where she lived, and how
she became possessed Of It, and she took
fright and ran away"
els she with her brotherT
"Yes. She wrote to me without Civ
Ing her address, stating that she must
remain with her brother Thomas for q
while. He was in business, and was tax.
ing care Of her. She left GRANDMOTHER eE
Eastbell In my charge, she said. It's a
responsibility" she added, "but l have
accepted It."
Reuben related the story Of his dis
covery Of Sarah Eastbell, Of her flight
from him, and the way In which he had
lost her In the gardens of Saxe-Gotha
Miss Holland reflected for a few mo.
ments, then she said:
~ wonder II her brother performs
there. He is an acrobat at times. When
he was first In prison, he was arrested
In his tumbler's Dress"
"In prison-an acrobatT
Reuben Culwick remembered at once
the tumbler who had been spinning round
on the slack rope at the Saxe-Gotha
when he had first entered the gardens
Could that be Tom Eastbell, the scamI
who had brought his sister into diticul
ties, who had caused her to fly from
Worcester, In order to escape the charge
Of uttering base coin2
On the following evening Reuben Cul
wick was in the Saxe-Gotha gardens
again, waiting patiently for the appear
ance of Signor Vizzobini, who had post
poned his departure for Turin for six
nights, by special request of the nobility
gentry and public in general, and who
was announced to appear every evening
at half-past nine in his highly graceful
and artistic entertainment, as perform
ed before all the crowned heads of Eu
rope, to the immense delight and mani
fest satisfaction of every crowned heat
among them.
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CHAPTER VIII,
The Saxe-Gotha gardens were not do
Ing well, Even the re-engagement o.