Might and Main Library. Number 56, 1907-03-16 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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3 |, self-willed young man, who was. jenelt Sila: to assert eat pegasion demanded. 'e ee te “had hanented to improve at once, and was ne ce) oe to take walks in the Jamas ie Gemane to. oi ars: nee advantage.” Ae ay oe : ods, “Indeed! peas we ae aa i. is! 5?” oie ut would: like to ask ies Bernitz ae few ve “I will answer them, Siry, ee “You say you do not know whether it was 1 woman?” — Lan Sie oo : athe pO NOUS fA es . | Do you know the name ae a Ee “Nos but I heard once a name byehiche has st haunted me, I know not shyly ee ee “And that name was?” asked Manvers. : “Leonard.” ps | i Ave Ah } Now, will you please “tell me hots. and # fo) got to know about this © Doyen svi, 2 ‘Dower, ogy e Neenon??. 8) yee ee Miss’ Beritz blushed as She ‘replied: | “From Mr. Vernon himself.” a “Years ago? Excuse me, Miss pense for ungallant, but justice demands it? “T make no secret of my age, sir! nearly as old as your pe ee - “No; no.’ ee eS et Bneaty. years ago I heard hie story first.” “And last time?” “A few months back.” It was easily seen ‘that the lady was s greatly ait the reminiscence. — : meh ao = one Li PI ne will spare you further,” fey Marivers, my story. I know not how I came to hear it, ‘buta a ‘ramed Martin Quincy married ‘a girl bearing the n 9 nvers was no ice ce “tough”: eeapines of his early life, and had become recon - As ae is still ice. and under We hat name _witning” for nself laurels at the bar, we shall still call him by the. ae assumed when che wandered “from the straight e Bag “abpolutely nothing oe ‘Vernon Cine mur- ch. from certain hints at times one was led to ould put. the detectives on the right track. not until one day when Miss Bernitz was dining Nilliam, and both Lawyers Zeutgard and Comyns ent, that the mystery was solved. tive, and her absence. allowed the conversation yard the Pig tsa 2eh ou “say a + regular income had been paid for some 3 ress Bes ee. this matter, and * have just had sae ) my mind a strange coincidence, which nay; of course, he had sewed the — Sarah Leonard. Quincy did not love her, but she wa receipt of a large annual income, and Quincy was a worthless vagabond. ‘Soon after he was married come stopped, and Quincy was worse off than ever. “He refused to work, and made his wife suppor For years she did so. She was a housekeeper some) and received a good income, but she added to it. by p centages from tradesmen and dishonest charges. All I heard from Quincy himself. Then a change came him. He was delighted about something, and told oe he would soon have be t thousand dollars. How from whence he did not say.” oe “Then, -Manvers, you think this man Quincy was. one who had power over Joshua Vernon’ ?” asked Zeutg ‘Veg! nee “Through his wife. as I Mie it,” ailded’ Com “That is so.’ Vernon had listened very closely without speaking unt then. : ee “What did you say the woman’s first name was ! oe “Saran ise “Ah! Sarah CHIACy E oes, 7 "Did “her husband call himself Quincy all the time » “No, Vernon; he was called Martin mostly.” ee Mr. Pasion I. see it all. Mrs. Martin, our hott ae keeper, or late housekeeper, was Mrs. Quincy. I know nov why she accused me of sleep walking when I said the hoi _ had been entered. pee s