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A LURKING PHANTOM; A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY.
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JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON Author of The Hispaniola Plato, The Year Que," "A Vanished Nivat,” ko.)..
CHAPTER XXIII.
A WRITTEN STATEMENT, "What do you want of me!" Challis asked. "And how can you prove your statement ?”
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"Provp it! Why, man, wo took your photo graph three weeks ago while you were giving my friend who rang the bell some very negative information sa to which was Mr. Hopking house. And that photograph was sent to the, Governor of Jacksonville Gaol the next day, with a request for information as to whether were known there or not. Would you like to as tho nàswer cabled back?"
1) the answer! "Quite so. And it is only reasonable that you should feel that way towards it, since it has undoubtedly damned you. Hold the revolver, Tommy," to that gentleman, who had by now come in, and I'll read him the Governor's reply."
Then, as Tommy covered Challis with the vespon, Augustus put his hand into his breast pooket and, producing a cablegram from it,
read
The man whose photograph you sent is the man who was imprisoned for life under the name of Murt Faraosa."
"How will that do for you?" asked Augustus, "What do you want?" the other asked again. This is getting wearisome," said Augustus- "And the night is late and I am far from kome," interrupted Tommy.
"Bat all the same I will repeat my wants," Augustus continnod. "I want every farthing you have extorted from Lady Bottrell under pretence of sending it to her late husband who was drowned nineteen years ago. I want, also, a statement sigued by you of the fact that he was drowned to your serta n knowledge or belief; also a statement that you knowing of his marriage to the lady in question, assumed his name on being saved from the wreck, with -well-with the full intention of utilising the knowledge you had become passssed of concerning that marriage"
"Anything else?"
"Yes, several things. A fall statement of your ruse of pasting so old faked photograph of Mark Bechuss on old all over-rope and the United States, of the celebrated Spanish gymnast, Parits, so as to make it appear as one recently taken. This, and several other little things, the whole statement to be signed by you and witnessed by me and on of my friends.
"And if I refuse?”
"If you refuse you will pass your night in the cells of Mortlake Police Station, and, eventually, the days nad nights of several years in one or other of His Majesty's prisons. It is existence, sings you dit two years at Portland true you are accustomed to that kind of
when Mr. Saxton and I obtained a conviction against you, and seventeen years and a half at Jacksonville. Bill, you are growing old now,
4.
D-you! Well! if I agree ?"
If you agres, my friends and I will walk to Patney the last of train will, I fear, be gone from here!-and we shail disappear into the vortex of London life. But we must take with as the money and the statement."
I have not got the money. Not all of it, My trip to England has be expensive. And the principal part is already invested in
America"
yout the knowledge coming to his lendship's ears that Mark Furnese might have been alive? when she married him. For, although he had geen the secount of the loss of the Promised Land, you had laid your plans so ekilfully co Long as you only had to deal with a woman unused to knavos of your kind-that she was keep it from his oara, Now," Augustus con- afraid your story was true, and she hoped to
cluded, "ha pan hear the story at once, sither from you or anyone oleo. Yer own statement, your own assumption of Mark Furness' name and individuality, will prove clearly enough that he is no longer in existones."
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"When am I to write this statement ?" Challis inch or, to speak accurately, within a few hours He had been within an of ceeaping from England with between ten and eleven thousand pounds in his possession: sum which would have made him comfortable for a long time, if not for life. And to do even sach a roguo justice he had determined TURKISH TOBACCO, PACKED IN AIR-TIGHT TINS OF FIFTY. that, from the moment he was in safety, Lady Hottrell should nover be persscated again. A able truth," Nene nro all Lord Byron was fond of
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with her he had almost resolved to leave Eng- more than even he could bear. At one interview
possessed of the sum he had meant to extract land that night with the small portion he already
from her, and once he had fought and westled with his better natura ere he could force himself whole story was a lie, the whole thing a long to refrain from telling her outright that his
melituled fraud,
And, now-now that be kaow that-though ho would escape, he would do so with as little money in his possession as be bad when ho writing to Lord Bottrell to expose his wife, he came to England; now, svou as be suggested know in his own heart that he would never do so.. The fraud had failed, but it had not failed through her astutense, through her cunning; she had believed in him, she had actually paid the maey to him in consequence of that belief. Henceforth, she was free of him, even if only because she had trusted in such a man as ho was, is such as he know himself to be.
Write it now," Augustus said in answer to his question. It should not take you long. But, first," ho continued, "you may as well hand over that pistol you have in your right hand
pocket."
Why ? You are in no danger: you have one of your own, and you have two men to help you."
"Prenisely. All the same I will take it, if you don't mind. It might go of under the table by accident when my attention bupponed to be distracted, and before I could prevent it And you wouldn't he that, I know. Also, I am sure you would not desire to disturb the calm of this peaceful neighbourhood-on a It will b Sunday night! Pass it over restored to you when so quit Laburnum Cof- Expre
This little request on the part of Augustus being complied with, Ira Challis sat down to the table and began to write the story of how the fraund on Lady Bottrell had originally been him and how, at last, he came to London to put conceived, how it had been meditated over by
it into effect.
He wrote it on some shesta of paper which he took out of a packet of common writing paper, that was by the spot where he had been sitting when Augustas entered the room, and, as be Aled one side of each page, he tore it off it ever to the man sitting opposite to him, who, in companion portion of the sheet and handed it turn, passed it on to Tommy, And, while he dil so, Augustus assisted him with several hints as to not forgetting to state how he obtained the cablegrams from Amerion with which it was ecessary to sometimes delude Lady Bottrell; as to how an old photo of Farnese had been
fsked
into a more or less likely appearance of one recently taken, and so forth.
"Make it complete," he remarked, "as though you were writing a story, We want an abaolule recount of the whole thing."
"It will have to make a quick change then, and be re-invested in my pocket to-night for transference to Lady Bottrell's banking account to-morrow. Coe, no lies. You have got the money rowewhere in this house." Augustus seid sternly. "The question is, how much have
Challis went on writing for some time stendi. you got: If you do not prodao: it, von willy, with still those two men sitting by him "reading his statement one after the other, and sleep in the polica cell to-night,”
with Augustus Chantrey's voice alene breaking
"I have some thousands here," Challis said,
with another oth
If you restore ten thousand we will be satis tied. But we mngs have that,
Or
mind.
"And," said the follow with a rin, "sup- posing that, later, when I am back in America, I write to Lord Bottrell und tell him the little story of bis wife! What will ho think, or say. dil tell you one thing be will not do." Angustas said, divining, or at least imagining with great Recuracy, what Challis had in his "He will not pay you anything to hobl your tongue. That's what you mean, I think."
Perhaps with another grin. "Well, you are deceiving yourself, through not knowing quite as much about the affair ag you imagine. And now Augustus screwed himself to, as he termed it, "tell a good one."
Lord Battrell," be said, "knew of his wife's previous marriage before be bimself married her; su; tuo, did one or two others. including myself."
She parte freoty to keep the knowledge from him all the same.”,
She did nothing of the sort, She parted freely, to use year tarm-rary frealy to pre-
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