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200 THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. must find out her deceased husband’s relations, : © Yes—to. -nig or answered Mrs. Webber." and band them aver the money: ine sha haa got pe | “ Is that lady come yet ?” rmert relations of her own.” _| "© No—and ‘that's why, after what Dye sc “ Ah, sir, it’s like your strict integrity ! ” ex- the business must be for to. -night.” claimed Mrs. Webber... “F heard speak of your! “ Well, it’s a, reg’lar blessin’,” interjected the |” character in Liverpoel. the day Lapplied for the } Burker, « that you've made up your, mind at last, situstion; and all that was told me made me in- | after all this here hesitating and dilly | | deed. most anxious to. get it’? . has kept me and Bil Scott all on the” “Yes, yes, Mirs. Webber,’ resumed Pollard; tenting- "ooks of suspense.” “ the y money shall be: righteously dealt with. There _ | “ Why, you must understand, Barney,” said ba it is,” he added, glancing towards the safe: then, treacherous housekeeper, “that it ai Riva to ‘instantaneously perceiving that he had imadyer-| put.off the, business.for a few da i bill T ane, ; tently let.drop.an admission.which he was meyer | obtain certain and positive saformation: in the habit of; making to a soul—and into which | whether Pollard had got in the halise, the nx} in he could only haye been thused by his confidence } he has to pay to Mrs. ‘Bayner.” in -his new. housekeeper;—he hastened to say, “I|, “Yes—and with the chance that Mrs. J ayner - mean the money is <n not here, of| would suddenly turn up,” growled or, course———at the banker’s!” ., . “reecivye her; blunt, and walk off with ut “Oh, to be-,sure; sir! eraeiisd Mrs. Webber: warn’t , goed policy, ., marm — it warn’t Te “T know you, keep very little: ready money in the | policy.’ house; and for my. part I tell Alice and the} “ aa absurdly you talk, Barney!” said “Mrz © tradespeople that. you never have any at all,” Webber angrily. “TI tell you it was absolutely “Sh, that’s might, my dear good Mrs. Webber!” | necessary to-ascertain whether the old man ian exclaimed the old miser,. bis. eyes. glistening with | kept enough in his house to render it worth Satisiaction at. the; assurance she. had just. given | while - him... And. its quite true teo! I don’t think | “Well, and now you'ye got at the rights of the - Tye. got, five ,shillings in the place! No—I’m} matter,” rejoined the delectable Mr. B “and sure I haye mot!”—and thus: speaking, Mr. Pol-| the business i isto be done right slick off-hand, lard; drew forth. from his. pocket. three-halfpence, | with no more humbugging delays. Wall, that’s” a fourpenny-piece, @ shilling, and a sixpence,—all| your sort, marm ; and so we won't haye no more of which .coins, he displayed..on the palm of his} argyfication on the pint. I’m blest if this Liver- | hand, as if the production thereof were irrefraga- | pool business won’t be the best dodge we was ble,eyidence of the truth of his statement. . . eyer put up to, Wasn't it a lucky thing that © You hav’n’t.seen this Mrs. Rayner for many } Jack Smedley should haye run down to Liyer- years—have you, sir?” inquired the housekeeper. pool just arter that little bit of business with |. “Tt must be tem good, years since I last saw ib Idger and at be should have heerd fell of. | her,” answered Pollard. “She was then a bit of miser’s wanting a housekeeper. _ a. a girl: but,I have heard that she grew up into a| blowed if it isn't enough te make a cat or a f very fine ‘handsome woman... I don’t suppose I| helephant crack his preejous tough sides to think _ could possibly reeognise her; and for this yery|how;Pollard bit at, them precious stifikits which — | reason she is sure to bring the proper papers with | Jack drawd up hiswelf and put all them there. her to prove her identity, _And now you under-} fine names to.” stand..why it is that. I don’t believe the lady who}. “Well, well, Rarney,” interrupted Mrs. Webber, + ' was killed, can be Louisa, on account of the ab- | “don’t stand wasting precious time here—but be: : senee of all. such corroborative documents about | off with you, sud lay hold of Bill Scott, so as to Ir - her person, or, in any box or trunk, that micht. be"punctual,”. have been supposed to. belong to her.” [| * Bill's handy enow, and as ready’ to lend .& MMos, Webber. now withdrew from her master’s | hand as he i is to swill his harf-an’ -harf, or déwour, presence: but instead of retiring | to the kitchen, or {his biled tautton for supper. And now tell us how, to her own chamber, she issued forth from the it’s all to be,” back-door, of. the.house, and entered the yard. This} A few whispered arrangements were " geffled” was, surrounded by walls; and im the one at the| between the treacherous woman and her es extremity there was a gate communicating with p| aceoniplice; and then they separated. Bu ith narrowyalley, The instant Mrs, Webber appeared | struck Berney the Burker that as he se ne "upon, the, threshold. of this back gate, she was} from the back gate, his his ear caught a soun as of joined; by.a man who had evidently been lurking | some one darting away—and he box perot _ inthe lane, Not aysyllable was cen until the tured that this some one was a female by | _ fellow entered the yard; and x cigs the gate being Tustling of the garments. ‘His ‘keen eyes ‘dung | age he. pane popnansine se, wa. nodes tone wth their piercing glances in the same c :D Mrs. Webber... _ | the alley was inyolved in total darkness --and $9 “ Well, what oan be inquired, eagerly. -tveze } COUld therefore distinguish © nothing. He now “ Good, Barney,” was the..woman’s. response.| rushed forward along the lane: but he overtook “I have just; sueeeeded-in discovering that the old} no one; and therefore endeavoured to btbinsg ' chap has got a mint of money in thei iron, safe.” ‘ himself ‘that he had either yielded to a false alarm, . | Ab! you're. clever.’un,” said the Barker, in | or else that it was some person ‘belonging to. an ‘@ Poca of admiring satisfaction: “ you all. along } adjacent house speeding forth on a : declared as; how yeu wos conwinced the old fogey that the incident had noe particular significancy to had his blunt in that there wery identical place. warrant his transient apprehensions. Still there. Thea I s:pose you mean the tidy little job to be | was a certain yague -misgiving in the mind of} | done to-night ? Barney the Burker ; and ere he returned to the ws, ~ “- fk WE ele GomiGcbooksncom