The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 153: what you’re looking at

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144 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY natural that they should believe success came to < their undertaking. Hence these wild fears. Andrews is assured as well as he can be, that the matter will be kept quiet, and hands me over the papers. These I clutch eagerly, for the sake of Billings — and Lord Arthur. | I have committed myself to nothing, as it has not been my intention to make out a case-against these people on account of Robert’s death, for he lives. I do mean, however, to make an attempt to drive them from the country by means of the lever which I grasp. When I tell them that Robert is alive and bent upon vengeance—that he is en- deavoring by every means in his power to over- whelm them, and intends to have them brought up with a round turn on account of the attempt on his life, no doubt they will be only too glad to start for California, and from thence emigrate to some other country where the charms of Evangeline may reap a harvest. The world is full of fools, gifted with wealth, and this state of affairs is more pregnant among the nobles of Europe than elsewhere. I will look these over in my room, Burke, and if they are all right, you can make sure there will be no trouble come to you on account of Robert Ham- mond’s suicide.” | With that, I gravely shake the hand of each one in turn, saying good-by. Itisa singular thing for an Englishman to do, but we take after the Ger- mans once in a ge ee When I come to Evangeline Iam conscious of a strange thrill as her small hand touches mine. It seems to run up my arm and over to my heart like comicbooks,