Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1899-01-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHAPTER VIII. PHILIP VANE BROUGHT TO THR TRIAL. Fontaine slept little that night His slumbers were haunted by weird visions, and in fancy the scene of the library was acted over. He would start up with that familiar voice ringing in his ears, and it required all his return to convince himself that it was not the phantasy of a dream. He arose with the dawn, and walked lavers] miles before the breakfast hour, but that meal he ordered to be served in the library. and with it earns the note from Miss Carleton which he had desired Cresar to tend for on the previous night Mies Carleton had copied the paragraph from her friend's letter. It ran thus: "I have something singular to tell you, in which Mr Fontaine, who called on us as a friend of yours when he was in New York, is interested. You know my hueband is a shipping merchant, and three passengers from Italy arrived in one of his vessels. They wore a priest, a lady of middle are. and a girl about seventeen. They all speak English well_ Mr Sunumertan is an Englishman, who has spent many years in Italy. He brought with him a letter of introduction to Mr Etnaly, in which the party were recommended to his hospitality; they were invited to our bowel, and have been with us since their arrival. They have oonie to the United States to establish the olaims of the girl, Savelle Fontaine, to her father's fortune. The elder lady is the half sister of her mother, who was married privately to the brother of Claude Fontaine while in Italy years ago. He was murdered by a jealous rival, awl the aunt has reared his posthumous child &II her °WM ' "I enquired why they had not before made known the claims of the heir, and Senora Roselli stated that until lately she had been unable to obtain information as to where the two brothers came from. .  "On the assassination of the younger brother, Claude Fontaine left Rome in a 'tate of distraction; her eister lay prostrated by illness. and it was many weeks before she was in a oonditon to confess her marriage to Henry and produoe the certificate which proved its validity. The priest who accompanies them performed the ceremony, Mid he has brought the proof which authenticates it.  "I remember the attractive child Mr Fontaine had with him when he visited us in New York; he told me she was his adopted daughter, and it was his purpose to endow her with his fortune. The claims of the new heiress will compel him to divide the inheritance; but it is large enough to bear that, end give a fortune to eaah one. But Isola. with her beauty and sweetness, must have developed into a more worthy representative el Lis family than this girl ever can be. "Madame Roselli ix still a handsome woman, who expresses herself well, and Mr Summerton i,a welLbred man. A few days since he was called into the country to visit a friend who was known E, him in Italy, but on his return the whole party will set out for Virginia immediately." The letter fell from Fontaine's hands; it was trim then; the warning had only been a prelude to the actual arrival of those who came to invade hie home.  As the ohild of his brother, she was welcome to the fortune that belonged to her, but of Senora !t,selli Fontaine thought with a shudder. To het counsels, to her perfidy, he owed the wretoherl