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104 THRICE WEDDED. He placed it carefully in his pocket, and then rising, bade the ladies a polite ‘‘good-morning” and retired, sad and disappointed, from the room. Our poor stricken lamb, utterly overcome by the restraint she had imposed upon herself, again fell lifeless to the floor. - She soon revived, however, and resumed her cold, calm exterior; refusing all sympathy, and forbidding the subject .to be mentioned. CHAPTER XVII. ‘WE SHALL SEER!” That same evening found Ralph Moulton and his uncle again seated in their room at the inn, engaged in earnest conversation, while the same eager listener, Ronald Edger- ton, was within the closet, to devour every word that fell from the two plotters’ lips. “T tell you things don’t work just as I want them to, Ralph,” said the old man, discontentedly. “Why?” asked Ralph. ‘‘Because the old fellow does not seem to mind the young one’s disappearance very much. He seems to take it asa - matter of course, that, if his son did not wish to meet the young lady, he should take himself off. I saw him just after he had received vour cunning forgery, or at least within a couple of hours after, and he was as calm as a clock. It would have done me gcod to have seen him rave and tear a, little.” -T guess hell rave and tear enough when I demand my rights, which I intend to do to-morrow,” replied the nephew, with a touch of bitterness. _ His uncle did not reply at once. He did not like to have Ralph quite so eager about this claim. When he had told him his history—or rather when he had invented this abominable lie, in order to make him a willing tool to fur- ther his own evil designs—he had hoped to be able, by promising him his whole fortune, to make him give up the idea of claiming Ellerton as his father. But he was deter- mined to prove that he had a legal claim to that name. And the squire blamed himself now for twitting him so much about hisobseure birth. yet | Another thing troubled him greatly. He had not antici- pated meeting Mr. Ellerton in Germany. | comicbooks.cor