The Dugdale Millions — page 289: what you’re looking at

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THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE. 276 When Mr. Hetlow learned from Mr. Stanton that Dick was at Springhill, and had gone upon a rivei excursion with Bessie and the others, he had insisted upon returning immediately. He had erroneously jumped to the conclusion that it was a part of a plan between his daughter and Dick to get together—a plan entered into surreptitiously and without his knowledge. This had made him angry and he had returned full of wrath, determined upon a vigorous policy, which would leave neither his daughter nor Dick in doubt as to his feelings upon the subject. The event of the night, however, had made his pro- gramme impossible. And when Mr. Stanton returned from Dick’s bedroom, saying that the latter expected to be down in a short time, and began to comment upon the effort to take Dick’s life, going to the conclusion, vigorously expressed, that the event could not be separated from the Harold Pierson claim, Mr. Hetlow was greatly troubled. He had combated from the first what he called the extreme theories of Mr. Stanton and Dick, but here was an overt act, for which there seemed to be no good reason unless one was to be found in the ur- gency of the old lawyer. He had pointed out to Mr. Hetlow that Dick had been, from the time of the dis- covery of Harold Pierson, energetic in insisting upon a strict examination into his claims, that he had dis- covered the young claimant in suspicious surround- ings, that he had employed the detective force, and had been instrumental in seeking out Mrs. Jenkins, and had only recently returned from a journey to Phila- delphia where he had been preceded by Moore on pre- cisely the same errand, all of which was undoubtedly known to these men whom Mr. Stanton now called boldly the conspirators. Mr. Stanton was very much in earnest, not to say excited, and he delivered his arguments and piled up his evidence with such vigor that Mr. Hetlow was over- borne and made no attempt to answer. Indeed he Comicloeo® S C@ 3