The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-04-21
THE SILENT SHORE
Or
THE MYSTERY OF
ST. JAMES PARK
[Ccntin, ei From :hirt Poge.i !

y, Il
not; and more especially for the rea-
son that you have shown me our mar
riage would be postponed il did so.
But never make such a remark again
to me. You know me well enough to
know that l am not Of the. stun that
murderers and fratricides hre made
Of"
II beg your pardon" Philip said:
''of course did not speak in earnes-."
'On this subject we will. IL you
please, speak in nothing else but earn
est. And, If you will help me with
your advice, l shall be glad to have
It,"
LET us go over the ground then"
his friend said, land consider careful
ly what you have to do. In the first
place you have to look at the mutter
from two different points of view. One
point is that you lose all claim to his
money-yes, yes, ] know" as Lord
Pert}yn made gesture of contempt at
the mention of the money-"all claim
by keeping your secret. 1t is better.
however, that you should So keep it.
But. on the other hand, there is, OF
course, the chance-a remote one. q
thousand to one chance, but still
chance-that he may have left some
paper behind him which would prove
your relationship to each other. In
that case you would, of course. have
no alternative but to acknowledge
that you were brothers"
And what would the world think of
me them
Siy =.
bade you. and keep the secret
1T would think that murdered
him. 1t would be natural that the
world should think so. He stood be-
tween me and everything except Ida's
love. and people might imagine that
he possessed that too. And his muir
der. coming SO soon after he disclosed
himself to me. wuld make appearances
against me doubly black"
Who is to know when he disclosed
himself to you. For aught the world
knows, you might have been aware of
your relationship for years"
Then / was living a lie for yearsv'
do not wind round the subject so,
And remember that. in very fact. you
have done no harm. \ week ago you
Well" Penlyn said. springing up
from his chair. things must take their
course. If it comes out it must: If
not, shall never breathe word to
any one. Fate has cursed me with
this trouble, l must bear it rs best I
can. The only thing | wish is that I
had never gone TO that hotel. That
would also tell against me if anything
was known
1t was pity, but it can't be helped.
Now. go to Belmont, but he careful
to hold your tongue"
Lord Penlyn did go to belmont. hay-
Ing previously sent telegram saying he
was coming. and he travelled down in
one of the special trains that was con.
veying a contingent OF fashionable
racing people to the second day at AS
cot. But their joyousness. and the in
terest that they all took in the one alb
sorbing subject, What would win the
Cup" only made him feel doubly mis-
cradle. Why, he pondered, should
these persons he SO happy. when he
was so wretched? And then. when
they were tired of discussing the rae.
ing, they turned to the otner great
subject that was now agiiatin~ peo-
pie minds, the murder in st. James's
Park. He listened with interest to all
they had to say on that matter, and he
found that. whatever the different
opinions of the travellers in the car
riage might be as to who the muir
derer was. they were all agreed as TO
the fact that il was no common mur
der committed for robbery, but one
done for some more powerful reason
He stood in some ones light" one
gentleman said, whom, from his an
pearance, Lord Penlyn took to be
barrister, land that person has either
removed him from this earth. or caus
ed him TO be removed. | should not
like to be his heir, for on that man
suspicion will undoubtedly fall unless
he can prove very clearly that he vas
miles away from London on Monday
night"
Penlyn started rs he heard these
words. His heir, Then it would bc on
him that suspicion would fall if it were
ever known that he was the heir: and.
as he thought that, among his broth
er's papers, there might be something
to prove that he was in such n posi-
tion, cold sweat broke out upon his
forehead. How could he prove him
self miles away from London" on
that night? Even the sleepy porter
could not say ut what time he re-
turned TO the hotel. Nothing. he re-
Elected, could save him, if there was
any document among the papers that
Stuart was probably ransacking by
now that would prove that he and
Cundall were brothers.
He thought that, after all, it would
be better he should tell Ida and he
made up his mind by he time he had
arrived at the nearest station to Bel
mont. that he would do so. 1t would
be far better than the information.
startling as it might be, should come
from him than from any other source.
And while he was being driven swift
iy over to Sir Paul's villa. he again
told himself that it would be the best
thing to do.
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