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That Sturk's brain had been shattered, and not cleared from hallucinations before he died; that having uttered the monstrous dream, in all its parts incredible, which was the sole foundation of the indictment against that every way respectable and eminent gentleman who stood there, the clerk, Irons, having heard something of it, had conceived the plan of swearing to the same story, for the manifest purpose of securing thereby the favour of the young Lord Dunoran, with whom he had been in conference upon this very subject without ever once having hinted a syllable against Mr.
Lord Dunoran was more pale than usual; indeed he felt like to faint on coming into the presence of the man who had made his life so indescribably miserable, and throughout the interview he scarcely spoke six sentences, and not one word of reproach. The villain was down. It was enough. Mr. Dangerfield was, perhaps, a little excited.
So next day there came my Lord Dunoran and a magistrate, not Mr. Lowe Mr. Dangerfield professed a contempt for him, and preferred any other. So it was Mr. Armstrong this time, and that is all I know of him.
Beauclerc, which you then said was committed by the same Charles Archer, who assaulted you in the park. 'Ay, Sir, said Sturk. 'The same murder of which Lord Dunoran was adjudged guilty. Sturk moved his lips with a sort of nod. 'And, Doctor Sturk, you remember you then said you had yourself seen Charles Archer do that murder.
He actually saw Miss Gertrude and my Lord Dunoran walking side by side, on the mulberry walk by the river; and though he looked and felt a little queer, perhaps, a little absurd, he did not sigh, or murmur a stanza, or suffer a palpitation; but walked up to the hall-door, and asked for Miss Rebecca Chattesworth. Aunt Becky received him in the drawing-room.
'No, it was not true that he had ever been confined in a mad house. 'He had never had delirium tremens. 'He had never heard that his wife thought him mad. 'Yes, it was true he had pledged silver of his master's at the Pied Horse at Newmarket' 'He knew it was a felony, but it was the prisoner who put it into his head and encouraged him to do it. 'Yes, he would swear to that. 'He had several times spoken to Lord Dunoran, when passing under the name of Mervyn, on the subject of his father being wronged. 'He never had any promise from my lord, in case he should fix the guilt of that murder on some other than his father. Our friend, Captain Cluffe, was called, and delivered his evidence in a somewhat bluff and peremptory, but on the whole effective way.
This, it must be allowed, was frank enough; there was no bargain here; and what ever Mr. Dangerfield's plan might have been, it certainly did not involve making terms with Lord Dunoran beforehand, or palliating or disguising what he had done. So on he went. 'I believe in luck, Sir, and there's the sum of my creed.
Poor little Puddock, on the other hand, had heard, more than a week before this message of peace arrived, the whole story of Gertrude's engagement to Lord Dunoran, as we may now call Mr. Mervyn, with such sensations as may be conjectured.
And my Lord Dunoran came in, and was very glad to see him, and very tender and reverent too; and the good doctor, as he could not be at the wedding, wished to say a word 'on the eve of the great change which my dear young friend little Gertie, we used to call her is about to make. And so he talked to them both. It was an affectionate little homily, and went on something in this sort
It was reported in Chapelizod, early that day, that Irons, the clerk, had made some marvellous discovery respecting Lord Dunoran, and the murder of which an English jury had found that nobleman guilty.
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