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The steward, soon afterward, dismissed all the servants, and the house was left empty for more than a year. At the end of that time Mr. Winterfield returned alone to Beaupark House, and told nobody how, or where, he had passed the long interval of his absence. Mr. Winterfield remains, to the present day, an unmarried man.

The pictures were so few that they could be hung in excellent lights in the different living-rooms of the villa. Turner, Constable, Collins, Danby, Callcott, Linnell the master of Beaupark House passed from one to the other with the enjoyment of a man who thoroughly appreciated the truest and finest landscape art that the world has yet seen.

The inquiry that I propose to you relates to a gentleman named Winterfield. He is now staying in London, at Derwent's Hotel, and is expected to remain there for a week from the present date. His place of residence is on the North Devonshire coast, and is well known in that locality by the name of Beaupark House.

To-day's newspaper announces the conversion of her husband to the Roman Catholic Faith. I can honestly say I am sorry for her, knowing how she has suffered, among her own relatives, by these conversions. But I so hate him, that this proof of his weakness is a downright consolation to me. Beaupark, January 27, 1862.

Thousands of people go to Clovelly, and Beaupark House is one of the show-places in the neighborhood. Is there a little Protestant prejudice in this new idea of yours?" Stella made no reply; she seemed to be lost in her own thoughts. Lady Loring went on. "I am open to conviction, my dear. If you will only tell me what interest Father Benwell can have in knowing about you and Winterfield "

Oh, dear, I speak carelessly; I ought to have said the place represents one of my caprices. In short. Father Benwell, Beaupark House is perfectly odious to me, and I think Clovelly the most overrated place in the world. I haven't the least reason to give, but so it is. Excessively foolish of me. It's like hysterics, I can't help it; I'm sure you will forgive me.

If any other person had spoken of me in this manner, I should have set him down as a mischievous idiot to be kicked perhaps, but not to be noticed in any other way. With you, the case is different. If I die without male offspring, the Beaupark estate goes to you, as next heir. I don't choose to let a man in this position slander me, and those dear to me, without promptly contradicting him.

"I am certain he will trust you with it. My friend is Mr. Winterfield, of Beaupark House, North Devon. Perhaps you may have heard of him?" "No; the name is quite new to me." "Then come and see the man himself. He is now in London and I am entirely at your service."

"The Vange property and the Berrick property were both absolutely at the disposal of Mr. Romayne," he said. "If he died without leaving a will, he knew enough of the law to foresee that houses, lands, and money would go to his 'nearest of kin. In plainer words, his widow and his son." When Penrose can travel, he accompanies me to Beaupark. Stella and her little son and Mrs.

Eyrecourt adds, in so many words "It is you who have upset her; why did you not speak while we were at Beaupark?" I am to hear again from Paris. Good old Father Newbliss said all along that she was fond of me, and wondered, like Mrs. Eyrecourt, why I failed to declare myself. How could I tell them of the hideous fetters which bound me in those days? 18th, Paris. She has accepted me!