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TAS. BE. GRANT, Sale Agent fox P. E, Island fer MOS. CONNOR & SONS,
Rope Manufacturers, ST. JOHN; N. B.
a@ Orders from the trade respectfully solicited. Ch’town, Feb. 29, 1884.—1lm
McLeod, Morson & McQuarrie, BARRISTERS
-—AND—
ATTORNEYS - AT -LAW.
Office in Old Bank,
(UP STATRS). Ch'town, Feb. 21, 1884.
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~ Feb. 16, 1883—3aw if
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r OVER-STOCKED with the tollowing GOODS, and offers
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OHN MACPHEE & CO. will, during tho HOLIDAY SEASON, give
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OF
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retting
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every
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.
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By Charles Reade. cone, -— —_
CHAPTER LVIIL | Punervuatty at ten o’clock Helen returned |te Fifth Street, and found behind a sort of counter, employed in trac- ing; a workman was seated at some little
from him; both bent on their
| distance
| work.
| ‘Mr, Undercliff?” said Helen. He rose, and tyrned toward her politely
-~a pale, fair man, with a keen gray eye
‘and a pleasant voice and manner: ‘‘I am
Edward Undercliff. You come by appoint-
| ment ?’
| ‘Yes, sir.’
| ‘A question of handwriting!’
| ‘Notentirely, sir. Do you remember
giving witness in favor of a young clergy-
man, Mr. Robert Penfold, who was accused
| of forgery?’
‘] remember the circumstances, but not
| the details.’
| ‘Oh, dear! that is unfortunate,’ said
| Helen, with a deep sigh; she often had to sigh now.
| ‘Why, you see,’ said the expert, ‘1 am
‘called on such a multitade of trials. How-
lever, I take notes of the principal oves. What year was it in?’
‘In 1864,’
Mr. Undercliff went to a set of drawers arranged chronologically, and found his notes directly. ‘it was a forged bill, madam, indorsed and presented by Pen- fold. I was called to prove that the bill was not in the handwriting of Penfold. Here is my fac-simile of the Robert Pen- foid endorsed upon the bill by the pris- oner.’ He handed it to her,and she examined it with interest. ‘And here are fac-similes of genuine writing by John Wardlaw; and here is a copy of the forged note.’
| He laid it on the table before her. She started, and eyed it with horror. It was a long time before she coulé speak. At length she said, ‘And that wicked piece of paper destroyed Robert Penfold.’
‘Not that piece of paper, but the original; this is a fac-simile, so far as the writing is concerned, It was not necessary in this ease to imitate paper and color. Stay, here is a sheet on which I have lithographed the three styles; that will enable you to follow my comparison. But perhaps that would not interest you.’ Helen had the tact to say it would. Thus encouraged, the expert showed her that Robert Pen- fold’s writing had nothing in common with the forged note. He added: ‘I also de- tected in the forged note habits which were ‘entirely absent from the true writing of John Wardlaw, You will understand there were plenty of undoubted specimens in court to go by.’
‘Then, oh, sir,’ said Helen, ‘Robert Pen- fold was not guilty.
‘Certainly not of writing the forged note. I swore that, and I'll swear it again. But when it came to questions whether he had passed the note, and whether he knew it was forged, that was out of my province.’
‘I can understand that,’ said Helen; ‘but you heard the trial; you are very intelli- gent, sir, you must have formed some opinion as to whether he was guilty or not.’
The expert shook his head. ‘Madam,’ said he, ‘mine isa profound and difficult art, which aims at certainties. Very early in my career I found that to master that art I must be single-minded, and not allow my ear to influence my eye. By purposely avoiding all reasoning from external cir- cumstances,I have distanced mycompetiters in expertise ; but I sometimes think I have rather weakened my powers of conjectures through disuse. Now, if my mother had been at the trial, she would give you an opinion of some vaiue on the outside facts, But that is not my line. If you feel sure he was invecent, and wanted me to aid you, you must get hold of the handwriting of every person who was likely to know old Wardlaw’s handwriting, and so might have imitated it ; all the clerks in his office, to begin with. Nail the forger; that is your only chauee.’
‘What, sir!’ said Helen with surprise, ‘if you saw the true handwriting of the person who wrote that forged note, should you recognize it?’
‘Why not? Jet is difficult; but 1 have done it hundreds of times.’
‘Oh! Is forgery so common?
‘No; but | am in all the cases; and, be- sides, | do a great deal in a business that requires the same kind of expertise-— anonymous letters. I detect assassins of that kind by the score. A gentleman or lady, down in the country, gets a poisoned arrow by the post, or perhaps a shower of them. They are always in disguised hand- writing ; thase who received them send them upto me, with writings of all the people they suspect. This disguise is generally more or less superficial; five or six unconscious habits remain below it, and often these undisguised habits are the true characteristics of the writer. And I'll tell you something ¢urious, madam: it is quite common for ail the suspected people to be innocent; and then I write back, ‘Seud me the handwriting of the people you suspect the least,’ and among them I| often find the assassin,’
‘Oh, Mr. Undercliff,’ said Helen, ‘you make my heart sick.’
‘Oh, it is a vile world, for that matter,’ said the expert; ‘and the country no better than the town, for all it looks so sweet with its green fields and curling rills. There they sow anonymous letters like barley]; the very girls write anonymous letters that make my hair stand on end. Yes, it is a vile world.’
‘Don’t you believe him, mis@ said Mes.
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‘Oh, that is it, is it? said the expert, doubtfully.
‘Yes, that is it, Ned,’ said the old lady, quietly; then, after a pause she said, ‘I want you to do your best for this young lady.’
‘T always do,’ said the artist. can I judge without materials! brings me none.’
(To be continued, )
‘But how And she
LETPERS TO THE EDITOR,
Guy de Montgomerie Heard From.
My Dear Sir—Allow me to thank you most sincerely for your courtesy in giving place to my letter of acknowledgement last week. I observe in your issue of yesterday, a communication signed, ‘‘Pro Bono Publico,”’ which, although not addressed to me, contains some indetinable reference to my letter, and evinces a gratuitous interest in my affairs entirely beyond my compre- hension, I have never been in the habit of reading anonymous letters, much less of paying attention to their contents, as 1 con- sider they are usually written for ‘‘mis- chievous purposes, and that it is anti- British to strike behind the back.” I thank ““P. B. P.,” however, for affording me the opportunity of making a slight conclusion, instead of acknowledging the receipt of ‘*Darwin on Primeval Man,” it should have been ‘‘Darwin’s Origin of Species,” and the mistake I shall explain. The book itself I had lent to a gentleman whom I met at a late meeting of the Diocesan Church Society, who informed me that it would be of use tohim in preparing a paper on ‘*Primeval Man;” when transcribing the list of articles, having in mind the fact thet the book had not been returned, 1 unfor- tunately substituted the name of the paper for the title of the book. For this slight lapsus penne, 1 beg to offer my apologies. “P. B. P.” considers me very green, but my verdancy does not prevent me recognizing him as a member of that too numerous class whose sole occupation consists in minding other people’s business. If charity to all men and women is suggested by a teapot, may I be pardoned if I recommend a strong infusion of that vessel's contents to “P. B. P.,” who makes such uncharit- able remarks upon my person and habits. His anxiety lest am examination of Darwin should disclose a family resemblance in the picture of some mischievous-looking animal, etc., is entirely uncalled for. He ‘muat be ignorant, indeed, who is not aware that my family traces its lineage beyond the days of the Holy Wars, when the brave Sir Robert de Montgomerie went forth with eleyen sons to rescue the Holy Sepulchre from ihe Mohammedans. In the succeed- ing centuries they have ever preserved their character for piety--their pilyrimages to the Holy Land and the tombs of the Apostles have been made the subject of story. Their religious fervor has always been of the most exalted degree, nor has it ever partaken of the wild fanatacism of nomadic votaries known as palmers or mendicant pilgrims. The de Montgomeries were gentlemen always.
Before thanking you for your kindness in granting me space in your columns, may I be allowed to acknowledge since my last, the receipt of a green felt hat, and a copy of Dudiey Warners ‘‘Crapaud and that sort of thing.”
Believe me,
My dear Sir, Yours most faithfully, Guy pe Mon rcomeri£, M. A., Cantab. 8. Etheldreda’s Church, Riggs’ Woods, Feast of 8S. David, 1884.
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To what extent the commercial interests of Great Britain are bound up with those of her colonies will appear from a consider- ation of the vast amount of British capital invested ir. various colonial securities. At present this reaches a grand total of £620,- 000,000 sterling. Of this amount £225,- 000,000 are invested in India, £200,000,000 in Australasia, and £112,000,000 in the Canadian Dominion, of which latte’ amount £30,000,000 are due on Government
loans, £55,000, 000 on railways and Provincial and city expenditures, £7,000,000 on banking, mortgage,
and agency, and £20,000,000 on other in- vestments. In the Cape of Good Hope £30,000,000 are invested; in the West Indies and Guiana, £7,000,000; ia Ceylon, £5,000,000; in the Straits, £500,000; in Natal, £4,000,000; in Mauritius, £2,400,- 000; in Newfoundland, £500,000; and in other possessions; £3,000,000. The colon- ies, it will be seen, find employment for an enormous mass of British capital,
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Mr. Labouchere says its all humbug that the late gillie John Brown was a particular favorite of Prince Albert, and commended by the Consort on his death-bed to the Queen, He was an ordinary upper servant when Prince Albert died, and then the Prince ‘‘looked with ineffable disdain upon those beneath him.” ‘‘Heaven itself,” says the editor of the Truth, ‘‘would sear- cely be acceptable to a German Prince if he were doomed to inhabit the same region as his sometime domestics, and I apprehend that such personage regard the assurance, ‘In my Father's house are many mansions,’ as a sort of guaranty that no auch grievous huddling iiogether of patricians and ple- beians is to be anticipated.”
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Dr, Abbott writes in Science that he once \found a full-grown chipmunk in the stom- iach of a builfrog; in another of the same
Undercliff, appearing suddenly. Then|species (Rana Catesbyaua) he found an turning to her sop, ‘How can you measure |eighteen-inch garter-snake which had been the world! You live in alittle one of your |swallowed by the frog while the snake was own—a world of forgers and anonymous!in the act of swallowing a mouse. The writers; you see so many of these you fancy | snake could not defend itself while it had a they are common as dirt; but they are | mouse in its gullet, and be frog took ad- only common to you because they all come) vantage of the fact, Of course no one will your way,’ ‘find the story difficult to swallow,
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