The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 234: what you’re looking at

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MORE EXPLANATIONS 209 departure, attended by a small suite, amongst which was the faithful Mark. They left the British shores to return to the kingdom of Inderabad, where Indora was to take her seat on the throne that awaited her, and to place by her side on that regal elevation the husband whom she would make a king, and whose presence she knew would be so welcome to the millions of her subjects already enjoying the benefits of his enlightened policy. We may here avail ourselves of an opportunity to give a few little explanations which will complete the elucidation of all the mysteries of the past. The reader has already per- ceived how Indora had learned in her own native city the real name of him who passed by the fictitious one of Clement Redcliffe, and how from the passionate language which had burst from his lips at the time she gleaned enough to prove that he had just made the discovery of how he laboured under a frightful imputation in his own native land. After he had escaped from Inderabad she followed him to Eng- land, and she obtained an interview with him, as recorded in one of the earliest chapters in this narrative. She com- prehended that he was bent upon adopting measures to prove his innocence, for she knew him too well to believe for a single instant that he could ever have been guilty of a crime. Then it was that the romantic idea of secretly succouring him in his endeavour to demonstrate that innocence flashed to the mind of the fond and devoted Indora. But having only a dim idea of the circumstances attending that crime of which he was accused, Indora ordered Mark to procure the files of an English newspaper,that she might obtain a perfect knowledge of all that it concerned her to know. In that newspaper she read the particulars of the tragedy at Oak- lands in the year 1829, and she had no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that as Bertram Vivian himself was as- suredly innocent, his brother Hugh must be the guilty person. To visit Oaklands, to behold the spot which had proved the scene of the tragedy, to glean whatsoever she might be possibly enabled to pick up, and to avail herself of any circumstances that might transpire toward the furtherance of her aims, — these were the ideas that naturally began to occupy the attention of Indora. Thus when Madame Angelique called at Shrubbery Villa, and in the course of con- GomiilGaooks (S©)