The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 181: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

172 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. cumstances they are not and have never been man and wife.’ ” He starts in to write, then stops. “T refuse to put that down.” “Why should you? It is the truth and we can prove it. To do so we must convict your daughter of bigamy—a serious Spetnhcraea in this country as it is © in England.” “But you make me convict myself. How am I to tell in what manner you will use this paper. There is another way of reaching the same end without giving me a passport to prison over my own signature.” | “T suppose so. Get ready again. Let us see— suppose we put it this way: “T, Larz Andrews, although acting under the Beliee at the time that my daughter was free to marry, have discovered since that this was not so, and do now declare in writing over my own sig- nature——’” “Hold on till I get that,” The pen scratches for a minute, and then he reads what he has written. “Continue.” “That there was no legal ceremony between Robert Hammond and my daughter, known as Evangeline, and that, under the circumstances, they are not and have never been man and wife.’” He continues to write. “There. Let me read it out.” He has not missed a word. “What do you think of it in that shape?” I ask, mentally wondering whether he will sign, for there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. “J don’t know that I need object to signing it in comicbooks.com |