Penny Dreadfuls, 1847 · page 32 of 396
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30 MYSTERIES What man? The oneto whom vou snoks this moment. He is nota man, said Bob, emphatically, but a gentieman. » His name? i de not know, Stephen now dropped a sovereign intothe open paim of Bob. . That is a better way of asking a question, said ho, depositing the gold ina safe | place; you want toknow that gentleman’s name, do you! : Yes! | Well, Tam not acquainted with it, God bless you, young gentleman; and the assassin disap- peared. ore om CHAPTER III, On the same evening that the events we have -already recorded transpired, there was a magni- ficent ball given at Trevor House, the residence of Lord James Trevor, who had within a few years played a brilliant and distinguished part in the politieal world... Upon the accession of the Whigs to power his lordship had withdrawn from _ public life, and his house became the rendezvous oat the leading spirits of the Tory party. Lord _ James wes a widower, and lived with his sister, Lady Campbeil, who bad kindly superintended the education of Miss Mary Trevor, the only-child ofthe Count. In 1820, Lady Campbell had been panes “most ahlamaiuey belle in the fashionable Bit tae as ae: ey Sf hy) “aig oe €omicbookscom,