Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 349: what you’re looking at

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“Of course I couldn't do anything to right matters then, but I was terribly cut up, and I've never “ot over it till this day. I never expected to hear any- thing more from either the cap’n’s boy orhis friends; but, sir, Lam just as sure that that young Chap in there,”’ with a nod toward the room where Charlie Harwood lay, “is Bill Morton’s son, as Iam that my naine Js Tom Lawson.” Perey was pretty sure of it. too, but the question that arose in his mind at this juncture was: “Then wio am FT 2! He questioned the mati fot some time longer re- garding j:is story, and was timmly convinced that Charles Harwood inust be the son of Captain Morton, although he had never before had a suspicion that he Wag not the son of Sir Henry Harwood, If this was true, then the small fortune that Sandy Morton had left hiw, together with a few other heu- loows, were lis 0 longer * they all belonged to the nearest of kin. True, the old yentlemin had willed everything to him, believing that his own grandchild had perished with its parents, and he could legally claim the be- quest; but Percy Morton was @ man who was awayed more by moral than by civil obligations, and he knew thut, while believing that Charlie was the rightful heir, he conld never use another pound of the anoney that Sandy Morton had accumulated. Still, if the young mau supposed himeelf to bo the gon of Sir Henry Harwood, would it not be mistaken kindness to undecelve lim. The small property which he cowld restore to him would seen very meager compensation for the loss of his birthright; he-had been reared in a home of luxury, and as the son of the wealthy and eminent physician, How would he recelve the intelligence that he was auly ‘the child of a sea captain—the grandson of an himuble light-house keeper?) Would not®iv Heury himself be offended to have his domestic affaires thus meddted with, when all his life he hud closely gouardert, thus secret of the boy’s adoption ¢