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S.l.ls OR 4 TALE OF MONEY MADNESS. s!.ss1
~ BY JAMES PAWN r~e0
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OR 4 TALE OF MONEY MADNESS


! That is a lie. With your witness
there, it is. perhaps, actionable tc
say so. No matter; / repeat il
again.
You can do so without fear, SIR
answered the lawyer, i~ndifferently;
"one does not bring civil action
against criminals"
Criminals That is Of a piece
with your whole behavior to me; you
have gone about defaming my char
acter. Wherever I turn 1 find you
have been beforehand with your Dc
not trust him."
LAS for instance? Can you give
me an example, Mr.. Adair?"
There is DR.. Woodruff, for one
What! do you dare allude to that
transaction? Then I admit it!
| told him something which put the
insurance company on their guard.
And now, in your turn, answer me
this: Where did you propose yourself
to get the twelve thousand pounds
requisite for floating the San Sa-
brano scheme?"
Adair answered nothing; but his
white lips moved a little, and he
moistened them with his tongue.
did you not, at a monstrous pre-
MUM, insure your sick child's life
for that sum-"
What of that?" murmured Adair,
h~oarsely. 1.-THE law had nothing to
say against it, and therefore no one
had a right to complain"
That does not always follow, Mr..
Adair. This gentleman here, whom
you have taken for n of my clerks,
may claim to be an exception to that
rule"
Robert rose, and confronted Adair.
MY name" he said, lis Robert AL
dred, the son of your benefactor
whom you have robbed and ruined.
You have married my future likewise,
yet let me tell you that I do not
loathe you for the wrong you have
done to him so much as I despise and
detest you for your cowardice and
cruelty to your unhappy wife"
"Ah, 1 remember" said Adair,
contemptuously, you were one of
her old flames. Of course it would
have been a nice thing to have kept
her money in the family, only she
preferred somebody else"
THAT was not you, you cur" said
Aldred; "she married you out of
fear"
"You seem to know a great deal
about my domestic AFFAIRS" answered
the other, scornfully.
1--WE do" interposed triton, in SOL
emn tones, more, much more, than
you have any idea of. Do you re-
member what happened on the day
that DR.. Newton called to see Will
lie?"
Il remember he did see her"
"Yes, but something else. The
thing I speak of had happened be-
fore, no doubt, but not often. There
were not many opportunities for it
to happen, though you never let one
slip. One offered itself that day;
you made an excuse to leave your
wife and the doctor below, and re-
turned to the nursery alone"
I have no recollection of the cir
cumstance you mention" he muir
INJURED, huskily.
81 know some M who can refresh
your memory. When you entered
that room you made a slight mis-
take"
"Is it possible?" answered the
other, eagerly; the DON vas dark
ened; there were several bottles on
the table"
who said anything about bottles?
That is a most damaging admission
on your part. 1t was no mistake you
made with them, however; you had
done the same thing too often for
that. The mistake you made was in
concluding there was nobody in the
room"
"Jeannette was below with the
rest" he murmured, after a long
pause.
"She was, but there was another
person in the nursery behind the
curtain. 1t is lucky for you that you
are not in the dock at this moment,
for your face would hang you. For
my part, there is nothing that would
give me greater pleasure than to see
you there, but we are not all like
you, we sometimes deny ourselves a
personal qualification for the sake of
others. 1t is for another's sake, in
order that your innocent child may
not have to say to herself, MY father
was a convicted felon,' that I give you
this warning. You are in danger of
the law. Tomorrow may be too late
for escape; you must leave England
to-day"
Again the dry lips moved, but
without speech; he bowed his head,
however, in token Of acquiescence.
Have you money-money, I mean,
| sufficient to take you across the
Channel?"
ITO be sure" continued Triton.
dryly; II ought to have known that
you would have feathered your own
nest in any case-now 60. If you
take my advice, you will not return
to Albany street-there may be peo-
pie there on the lookout for YOU"
CHAPTER XXI.
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