The Argosy — page 259: what you’re looking at

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THE ARGOSY. APRIL 1, 1873. THE MASTER OF GREYLANDS. By THE AUTHOR OF ‘*‘ East LYNNE,” CHAPTER X. JUST AS SHE HAD SEEN IT IN HER DREAM. VILS do not always come alone. It sometimes happens that before one astounding 1ll is barely glanced at, another has fallen. This was the case at Stilborough. The town awoke one morning to find that the bank had stopped payment, and that the banker was dead. Never before in the memory of man had the like consternation been known. It can be better imagined than wnitten. At once the worst was anticipated. No one had ever been so confided’ in as was Mr. Peter Castlemaine. His capacity for business, his honour and integrity, his immense wealth, had passed into a proverb. People not only trusted him, but forced upon him that trust. Many and many a man had placed in his hands all they possessed : the savings perhaps of half a lifetime ; and now they saw themselves ruined and undone. In the very midst of the commotion, there was brought to Stilborough news of that other calamity—the mysterious disappearance of young Anthony Castlemaine. He had been seen to enter the Friars Keep the previous night, and had never come out again. The name of the Master of Greylands appeared to be mixed up in the affair; but in what manner was not yet understood. Verily misfortunes seemed to be falling heavily just now upon the Castlemaines. An enquiry into the death of Peter Castlemaine ended in a decision that he had died from heart disease. This was arrived at chiefly by the testimony and the urgent representation of Thomas Hill One of the medical men was supposed to hold a contrary opinion ; and the dreadful doubt, previously spoken of, would always. lie on Miss 'Castle- VOL. XV, COMMUCWIOOKS «COIN