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. 98 Anne Hereford. [THR Ancosy. cealed near the spot still Mr. Edwin Barley was in great anger at his escape, and avowed he would pursue him to the death. Not on this day, but the following one, Mr. Heneage’s father came to the house—a fine old gentleman, with white hair. Mr. Lowe corrected me for calling him old, and said he could not be much more than fifty. I had: not then the experience to know that while young people call fifty old, those past that age are apt to style it young. I saw him twice as he went along the passages, but was not close to him. He wasa _courteous, gentlemanly man, but seemed bowed down with grief. It was said he could not understand the calamity at all, and decidedly re- fused to believe in his son’s guilt. If the shot had in truth proceeded from him, the gun must have gone off by accident. ‘Then why should he run away?” argued Mr. Edwin Barley. ! He stayed in the house altogether but about two hours, and had an interview with Mrs. Edwin Barley in her bed-room before his departure. In the afternoon the coroner's inquest sat. It was held in the dining- room. The chief witness was Mr. Edwin Barley. I was not called upon, and Selina said it was a proof that he had not mentioned I was present at the time. You may be sure / took care not to mention it; neither did she. Nothing transpired touching the encounter at the summer-house ; therefore the affair appeared to the public involved in mystery. Mr. Edwin Barley protested that it was a mystery to him. He could not conceive what motive Heneage could have had in taking Philip King’s life. Mr. Edwin Barley testified that Philip King, in dying, had asserted he saw George Heneage take aim and fire at him, and there was nobody to contradict the assertion. I knew Philip King had not said so much ; but no one else knew it, save Mrs. Edwin Barley, and she only from me. They did not call upon her to appear at the inquest: it was assumed that she knew nothing whatever about the transaction. Charlotte Delves was called, at the request of the jury, because Philip King had sat with her in her parlour for half an hour the morning of his death ; but she proved that he had not touched upon any point of dis- pute, or spoken then of George Heneage. The feeling between them had not been good, she said, and there used to be bickering and disputes. ‘‘What about?” asked the jury; but Miss Delves “could not say :” she would not bring in Mr. Edwin Barley’s name. While the inquest was sitting I was in Selina’s room. She seemed very restless, turning about in bed continually, and telling me to listen how it was “going on.” But I could hear nothing, though I went often on the stairs to try. “ What was that stir just now, Anne e” “They called from the dining-room to have the chandelier hghted. John went in and did it.” ‘¢ Ts it dark, Anne 2?” COMICDOOKS. COM