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Updated: June 11, 2025
Instantly!" Mrs. Bowmore drew back the bolts before the servants could help her. "Where is Charlotte?" she cried; seeing Percy alone on the doorstep. "Gone!" Percy answered furiously. "Eloped to Paris with Captain Bervie! Read her own confession. They were just sending the messenger with it, when I reached the house." He handed a note to Mrs.
Don't be afraid, mamma! I know what I am about, and I know I am right." "Going to Justice Bervie's!" cried Mrs. Bowmore, in the utmost extremity of astonishment. "What will your father say, what will Percy think, when they come back from the Club?" "My sister's carriage is waiting for me close by," Bervie answered. "It is entirely at Miss Bowmore's disposal.
"Whoever he is, he has died nobly," Bervie answered "May I look at him?" The workman signed that he might look. Bervie lifted the cloak and met with Doctor Lagarde once more. No. 1. Miss Bertha Laroche, of Nettlegrove Hall, testifies and says: TOWARD the middle of June, in the year 1817, I went to take the waters at Maplesworth, in Derbyshire, accompanied by my nearest relative my aunt.
Just before eight o'clock, as I was about to enter the park by the side gate near Bervie Farm, a gentleman approached me and asked if my name was Duncan. I told him it was, and then he gave me this to give to you in secret. He also gave me a pound note, miss, to say nothing about it." And the prim lady's maid handed her young mistress a small white envelope upon which her name was written.
Who does it belong to?" Bervie smiled. "It belongs to my father," he said. "He is chairman of the bench of local magistrates, and he receives his brother justices to-day, to celebrate the opening of the sessions." He stopped and looked at Percy with some embarrassment. "I am afraid I have surprised and disappointed you," he resumed, abruptly changing the subject.
How many thousand women choose blue for their favorite color, and answer to the vague description of the lady whom the Doctor pretended to see?" "Say that it is so," Bervie rejoined. "The thing is remarkable, even from your point of view. And if more coincidences follow, the result will be more remarkable still."
It will be really doing me a favor if you can call to mind what Lagarde saw in the trance in my absence?" Thus entreated Percy roused himself. His memory of events were still fresh enough to answer the call that his friend had made on it. In describing what had happened, he accurately repeated all that the Doctor had said. Bervie dwelt on the words with alarm in his face as well as surprise.
"I have heard enough." He walked to the door. Mr. Percy Linwood dropped Doctor Lagarde's hand, and appealed to the retiring Captain with a broad stare of astonishment. "You don't really believe this?" he said. "I only say I have heard enough," Captain Bervie answered. Mr. Linwood could hardly fail to see that any further attempt to treat the matter lightly might lead to undesirable results.
"Can you tell me of any facts which justify what you have just said?" "I can tell you of three facts," Bervie said. "Mr. Bowmore belongs to one of the most revolutionary clubs in England; he has spoken in the ranks of sedition at public meetings; and his name is already in the black book at the Home Office. So much for the past.
Who was the friend to whose services he was indebted? As for the proceedings of the man-servant, but one interpretation could now be placed on them. They distinctly justified what Captain Bervie had said of him. Mr. Bowmore thought of the Captain's other assertion, relating to the urgent necessity for making his escape; and looked at Percy in silent dismay; and turned paler than ever.
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