A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 144: what you’re looking at

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142 A LADY BACHELOR. haunting dream, and that is why you have until now borne your mother’s family name; that is why she kept from you the knowledge of the name of your father. I need not go into detail, the rest you know.”’ ‘* And the other George Everest?”’ ‘* Was not in any way related to your father’s family; it was but a coincidence in names; it is an incident, as you know, of frequent occurrence. ‘This other George Everest was the great-grandson of a mulatto slave. He did not learn the fact until he was a man well on toward thirty. It was revealed to him in a spirit of spite. It made him desperate. He dissipated his fortune, became a desperado, and finally paid the penalty of his crimes on the gallows. He was never married. His reputation can not possibly reflect upon you in any way It is believed that George Everest, your father, left an heir; a distant relative has held the estate, subject to the claim of this heir. Whether he ever took steps to discover him or not, I do not know. This is the whole story. ’”” There followed an interval of silence, broken at length by George, who clasped my hand and said: ‘* T owe the opening up of the true history of my family to you.” I made no answer, and he said: ‘* Tell me how you came to seek the truth. ’’ I told him all; 1 told him how I had met Eloise, how «wer aunt had told me of her experience, and how I had set out to learn the secret that had caused a seemingly honor- able young man to act the part of a villain. He listened to me calmly, but there were changing expressions pass- Gomichbooks co