The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1905-03-03 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

CHAPTER XX.  TIM NARBATIVIC BY PAUL WINGROYB.  HOW IT ALL ENDED. Lrrrtn remains to be added to this narrative, widch, so far as the house over the way is concerned, is pratically told. Professor Cloud was doomed to suffer a disappoiutuient c morning following the extraordinary events in th,3 ece,ling chapter. My uncle Richard never lived to be arrested by the police. When they artived at his house for that psi pose, and he lound he had been betrayed into their hands, he drew a 'evolver from his breast and shot himself through the heart. Mrs. Trussett, who looked upon life as precious under all circumstances, was taken into custody. and in due course tried anii sentenced. She was sent into penal servitude for seven years. Five years experience of prison life sufficed to end her days. The agreeable surprise Professor Cloud had in stoie fr me was the introduction to his "sweet Mary " in the character of my sister. " Yon do not understand," lie said, as he led her forward and placed her hand in mine, "how she :an be ?, ..,r si,ter and my daughter. My dear oung I..ienil, allow me to exj.lain. It is very simple. ‘Vben I was assured by your poor father's silence tit.", he was 'lead, I married your mother. Sweet woman ! I was the only being in the world left to help her ; and had not her husband been nay Ixisoni Mend? Was not I the only being capable of tracing his destroyers to their doom, and of securing for her and her children their rightful inheritance? Alas ! that she Aorta dave lieen taken hem this sublurisry gloi e before that cleat wiirk of ibity and justice could be performed. impecuniosity prevented me from undertaking it ,uoner then I have doe. But patience, determination, and virtuous eni:c !Nom, are at last rem arde I."  When the great sensation of my uncle's suicide aril Mrs. Tritssett's tiial mOP over, I went down to S Iver Hall at the invitation of Sir Jaspot Pearl: Mary anil the Pitifessor were a'so invited. The rummy of Mam 'a icetility to man y the man elle loved was now c:eared up. The Piofersor explained it after his own fashion, and, of course, in his own favour.  In order to work out his rase against my uncle he deemed it expedient to eh .n,ps his name, and also to pass Mary off as his own daughter. Whilst oompelel to sail under false cohmrs she was determined not to marry, nor did the Professor wish it, even could she have done so without revealing her real name. He was ambitions for her to make a stir in high social circles, and marry in high life, when he succeeded in bringing her into her inherit ance.  . The canne of her agilathn on first meeting me at Silver Hall wan now pnrfectly clear. She knew that I was her hi other on hearing my name, and no possible doubt on the subject could remain in her mind after discovering that I had come from Win ford.  The Professor was grievously disappointed that nothing would persuade his "sweet Mary" to go info society and carry out his ambir ions projects. The influence he had exereiFed over her when searching out her fat het 'o fate, a hieh she bad been so solicitous to discover, wee now removed. And 80 it came about that there was a double wedding in the old-fashioned little parilt church nigh unto Silver flail, which the Professor atter led, but in rather low spirits. Need I add that the happy couples were Ralph Prescott and Mary, Agnes Pearl and in 'elf? A year later Pr oirosor Cloud, to whom Mary and I conjointly made a handsome anon once, resolved to return to Australia for the bent fit of his health. Oa the night before his departure when he wi.hed us farewell he made what no doubt he considered a very affecting speech. The white rat was on his shoulder while he made it. His concluding words were: "For you my sweet Mary, for you my unsophisticated Paul, I have fought a great and mighty battle, and have conquered. I trust you are grateful. Adonis! my beautiful Adonis ! would ahyone in existence have fought so bravely and unselfishly for me / Answer me that question? Adonis is silent !"  • • • • • For weeks it proved an object of great attraction to the morbidly minded in consequence of the •twful discovery made within its walls; but now, I ant thankful to state not a single fragment rems.ins standing of The Wolowe Over the Way.  1111