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OCCURRENCES IN NEWGATE 273 we had already mustered up to help us on in the world when we emigrate.”’ ‘To be sure,” said the Magsman, with a chuckle; ‘‘ and we mustn’t forget that my dear delectable wife, Mrs. Brace, as she chooses to call herself, contributed a thousand pounds t’other day toward that sum. It was lucky she was made to shell out in that manner just before she got lumbered for the murders. Who the devil would ever have thought that she had pluck enough to do such things? And isn’t it odd that we should both be in lavender at the same time, — she in one yard, and me in another? I wonder whether she ever in- quires after me,’”’ added the Magsman, with a coarse laugh. ‘‘ Oh, we ain’t talking about your splendid wife now, Mr. Warren,”’ said Carrotty Poll, with vixenish petulance. “I was going to observe, when you interrupted me, that there’s no harm in increasing our funds as much as possible; and indeed this was the very selfsame remark which you made yesterday when you and father told me for the first time all the curious details about your adventures down in the country three months ago. Perhaps the clue which I have already succeeded in obtaining, in pursuance of all you thus told me, will enable me to push the investigation to the end.”’ ‘“‘ And if you should find out the parties who were engaged in those adventures in the country,” said the Magsman, “‘ it may be worth many thousand pounds to us. I told your father so at the time, didn’t I, Stephen? ”’ “You did, Joe,’”’ was the answer. ‘‘ And let me see, the three distinct clues which we had, were the lady’s queer Christian name, the signet-ring taken off the finger of the dead body in the vault, and the fact that the old woman at the last cottage we stopped at called our masked employer “my lord.’ Those are the three clues, and the only three that we possess — ” | ‘‘ Well, but I think that they will prove sufficient, at least to put us upon the right track toward discovering the whole mystery,’ interrupted Carrotty Poll. ‘ But as I was telling you just now, I took Alfred with me to a bookseller’s at the West End, and, under pretence of buying the fashionable guides, he looked over them well. He found the name of Fernanda, and it seems that the lady who bears it is a young one, — her surname is Aylmer, — and she is related to the Earl of Desborough, the Earl of Montgomery, the Marchioness COLL Doo mn <S