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318 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. Hetlow insisted that all should remain and celebrate the engagements at his table. The interview he was to have with Dick after the confer- ence with Harold Pierson was forgotten in the superior interests. Dick accompanied Lord Merrimount to England a few weeks later, to take possession of hisestates. After arrang- ing for Lord Merrimount’s admission as a partner in the business he returned. In June of the following year Lord Merrimount crossed to America, and he and Wallis were married, at the same time that Dick and Bessie were, at ‘The Larches.’? They went to England immediately thereafter, where the inter- ests of the newly made husbands lay. Wallis, as her husband had predicted, was accepted by his family, not alone because she was Merrimount’s wife, but for her own trueself. Herbright, independent person- ality made her a petted favorite, and in her husband’s circle she was soon known as “‘the terrible Radical who disdained rank and desired wealth.”’ Bessie is known to London as “the beautiful American,”’ a title of which Dick is very proud. Captain Lawton captured all the conspirators except Harold Pierson, on the day he received the dispatch sent by Mr. Stanton. In the following July, in Chicago, Harold Pierson was found, but when the officer took him in charge, before he could be prevented, he shot himself through the heart, preferring death to imprisonment. Orton Pierson and Moore were acquitted for want of sufficient evidence when placed on trial in the fall, but Ransom, perhaps as much for other crimes as for his participation in the conspiracy, was sentenced for a term of ten years in the State’s prison. And thus ended the fraudulent effort to seize ‘‘The Dugdale Millions.”’ THE END. Comicboolkkxs C@ 3