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"I have something to tell you that is weighing me down with grief, and promise me, dear old fellow, that you will leave no stone unturned to do the right things, that I will point out to you presently." "If it is in human power, Bencroft, how can you doubt the eagerness of one old chum to serve another?"
The doctor knew there was a recognition, and taking the burning hand in his, he said tenderly: "Yes, Nicholas Bencroft, we will be school-boys again if you like. Those were happy days; let us go over them together once more." A strange, sad expression flitted across the invalid's face. He turned completely round and peered into the face of his companion.
Whereupon, one of them, the most respectable of the two, stated in brief, business like terms, that "he had been the family lawyer of the Bencroft's for many years, and that previous to his recent demise, Nicholas Bencroft had laid information with him, against one Vivian Standish, for swindling him out of a considerable sum of money, and that he had come there to see the man identified by the one who knew him best it being unnecessary now, to tell him, he concluded, that the punishment of his crime awaited him," he then drew back to make clear the way for his companion, who, as he advanced said,
"You have now the truthful story of my woe," he said, brokenly, "are you still willing to help me?" The question brought Elersley back from his wanderings. "Do you tell me truthfully that this is the villany of the boy we pampered so at school?" "That is the story of Vivian Standish's cowardly conduct," said Bencroft, in a tone of deep resentment.
Look at her! there she is now oh! so angry and sullen; ugh! she is cursing me threatening me tell her, for God's sake, Guy, tell her to spare the sick, wasted man see she is coming nearer to me save me save me " and in wild shrieks and tossings, Nicholas Bencroft plunged back again into the mad delirium of the fever. "Love is a great transformer." Shakespeare.
A change, sudden and wonderful, flashed over the stern features of the doctor, he staggered just a step, and then bent lower over the face of the invalid there within the close narrow limits of a poor sick-room, in a squalid locality, one stricken down by a loathsome disease, the other there to alleviate his pain, did two fellow students meet for the first time since the long years ago when they had crossed the threshold of their school-room as boyish "chums" each to take his road in the great thoroughfare of life yes there was no mistaking it those were the well remembered features of Nicholas Bencroft and no other.
His past career, seemed to have become a blank to him now, he could not understand how retribution had not caught up to him in the race, and so dropped trying to: he did not fear Bencroft, for his share of the guilt was about equal, but the magnanimity, or idiocy, of the "little one" if she had survived, he thought to be very convenient; of course, if through his instrumentality, she had passed into a fairer and a better land, why so much the better for all parties concerned.
"Good Heavens!" muttered Guy, "who can tell what more he has been able to do? Give me your hand Bencroft. As you have been the dupe of a blackguard who disguised his villany under the mask of friendship, I will stand to you. Will you allow me to write down this confession over your own signature, lest a nuncupative testimony be not sufficient to condemn him. We will call in Mrs.
Pratt grew communicative, and told the doctor how this sad young man came to her one hot Saturday evening and asked her for lodgings how she had thought him "sort o' nice" and "took to him" and had had him now for near a twelve-month that he had paid "reglar" and gave no trouble until the night the fever "struck him down" his name was Bencroft, she knew, and his linen was well marked with a N. an' a B. in "real good writin" and finally, how she hoped he'd soon get better, for his own sake and other peoples, "so she did."
Mountford had time to draw, and stand on his defence, he basely run him thro' the body, and made his escape; the alarm of murder being given, the constable seized lord Mohun, who upon hearing that Hill had escaped expressed great satisfaction, and said he did not care if he were hanged for him: When the evidences were examined at Hicks's-Hall, one Mr. Bencroft, who attended Mr.
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