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'Bosvile was the man's true name, therefore he was legally your sister's husband. I wrote down a statement by Mother Jael that Jentham was really Pharaoh Bosvile, and, at my request, she signed the same. Here it is, signed by her and witnessed by me. I shall give it to you, my lord, that you may lock it up safely with those certificates.
'Humph! remarked Baltic, meditatively, 'they are both called George. 'But they ain't both called murderer, my brother. George Pendle shot that Bosvile sure enough, an' ef y'arsk me, dearie, it was the son the captain the sodger. Ah, that it was! 'My dear Daisy, I am sorry you are going away, as it has been a great pleasure for me to have you in my house.
'Near it, said he, 'but not quite what I mean. The missing word will be told when we are on our honeymoon. In this way the matter was arranged, and Mab, as Miss Bosvile, was married to Captain Pendle on the self-same day, at the self-same hour, that Lucy became Lady Brace.
He was not a good man, my love. 'Never mind, aunty, cried Mab, embracing the old lady. 'I don't want to hear about him. You are both my father and my mother, and I know that what you say is right. I suppose, she added, turning shyly to George, 'that Captain Pendle loves Miss Bosvile as much as he did Miss Arden! 'A rose by any other name, and all the rest of it, replied George, smiling.
'This man as Bosvile married your sister in 1869, as Krant he married Mrs Pendle in 1870. 'Married Mrs Pendle! shrieked Miss Whichello, darting forward. 'Yes. She was a Mrs Krant when I married her, and as her husband was reported dead, I believed her to be his widow. 'But she was not his widow! 'No, for Krant was Jentham, and Jentham was alive after my marriage.
'Yes, answered the bishop, simply, and gave the paper into her outstretched hand. 'You can now understand, my friends, he continued, addressing the company generally, 'that as Mrs Bosvile was alive in October 1870, the marriage which her husband then contracted with Miss Lancaster was a false one. 'That is clear enough, murmured the attentive Baltic, nodding.
But Mother Jael went away in a happy moment, so Miss Whichello explained to her niece and George that the name of the former was not 'Arden' but 'Bosvile. 'It is necessary that I should tell you this, dear, on account of the marriage, said the little old lady; 'your parents, my dearest Mab, are dead and gone; but your father was alive when I took you to live with me, and I called you by another name so that he might not claim you.
'Of course I have, she replied, untying the red tape with trembling fingers. 'Here is the certificate of marriage which my poor Annie gave me on her dying bed. I would have shown it before to all Beorminster had I known of Mrs Pansey's false reports. Look at it, bishop. She thrust it into his hand. 'Ann Whichello, spinster; Pharaoh Bosvile, bachelor.
She looked at the bishop, he looked at her, and they were both ashy white, both overcome with nervous emotion. After a moment the bishop opened a drawer and took out a bundle of papers. Out of these he selected the marriage certificate of his wife and Krant, and compared it with the certificate of Pharaoh Bosvile and Ann Whichello. 'Thank God! he said again, in a tremulous voice.
The latter had decided that, to run no risks, it was necessary Mab should be married under her true name of Bosvile; and as Mother Jael knew that such was Jentham's real name, Miss Whichello fancied she might come to hear that Mab was called so, and make inquiries likely to lead to unpleasantness.
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