A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 134: what you’re looking at

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132 A LADY BACHELOR. had been an only daughter, and inherited all her father’s wealth, which, at her death, passed to her only son. - Here | had secured a clew. 1 had not expected to learn of a mystery, but with the information came a hundred strange and weird suggestions. I returned to New York by rail, stopping off at New Haven. The old lady could not tell me where George Everest, the husband of Isabel Edicott, had taken his bride. From the records at Yale, however, 1 learned the former residence in the South of the student who had wed- ded a lovely Northern girl. On the night following my departure from New York 1 was back again in the city. 1 called upon Laurence Adams, and said: **T think I am in the way of learning the secret that caused your whilom friend to act as he did.’’ Laurence looked surprised as he asked: ** What have you discovered?” ‘The real name of your friend is George E. vende He was ne born in ——, Massachusetts, but in a South- ern town.’ | I proceeded and told all that I had bdenedl and that same night I took a midnight train going southward. Three days later, and 1 was settled at a hotel in Ala- bama, and I quietly set to work to lay out the plan of my inquiries. ’ortune favored me. ‘There appeared at the hotel an old settler—a talkative old fellow. I made his acquaintance, and in due time asked: ‘* Did you ever know a man living down here named George Everest?’ His answer sent a chill to my heart, and a.cloud settled Eomichbooks - ———_— (E@)