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But Magdalen had seen Captain Wragge's signal with the camp-stool, and had at once diverted Noel Vanstone to the topic of himself and his possessions by a neatly-timed question about his house at Aldborough. "I don't wish to alarm you, Miss Bygrave," were the first words of Noel Vanstone's which caught Mrs.
The attempt to pass off the forged pictures as originals was in perfect harmony with the character of such a man as Mr. Bygrave.
There was not a doubt of it, in the strongest of all his interests the interest of saving his money he would wait. "Checkmate for Mr. Bygrave!" thought Mrs. Lecount, as she sealed and directed the letter. "The battle is over the game is played out." While Mrs. Lecount was providing for her master's future security at Sea View, events were in full progress at North Shingles.
"I have come here with two objects. To open your eyes to your own situation, and to save your fortune perhaps your life. Your situation is this. Miss Bygrave has married you under a false character and a false name. Can you rouse your memory? Can you call to mind the disguised woman who threatened you in Vauxhall Walk? That woman as certainly as I stand here is now your wife."
After sending to secure a place at once in the early coach, she sat down to write to her master. Her first thought was to tell him all that had happened at North Shingles that morning. On reflection, however, she rejected the idea. Bygrave had contrived to turn them against her. She resolved this time to keep them strictly in her own possession.
You don't know?" repeated the captain, sternly confronting his wife as soon as he had contrived, by seating her, to place her face on a level with his own. "Don't let me hear you say that a second time. Don't let me have a woman who doesn't know who I am to operate on my beard to-morrow morning. Look at me! More to the left more still that will do. Who am I? I'm Mr. Bygrave Christian name, Thomas.
Lecount will be back at Aldborough, and will find her master's wedding-cards on the table, and her master himself away on his honey-moon trip. I put it arithmetically, for the sake of putting it plain. God bless you. Good-morning!" "I suppose I may have the happiness of seeing Miss Bygrave to-morrow?" said Noel Vanstone, turning round at the door. "We must be careful," replied Captain Wragge.
She tried again and again to lure him into an unconscious confession of the pleasure which he felt already in the society of the beautiful Miss Bygrave; she twined herself in and out of every weakness in his character, as the frogs and efts twined themselves in and out of the rock-work of her Aquarium.
Bygrave an opportunity of repairing the error that he had committed, and of artfully regaining his lost place in Noel Vanstone's estimation. Admitting that circumstances had at last declared themselves unmistakably in her favor, Mrs.
The day before we left town, Miss Bygrave, a person who presented herself under the name I have mentioned paid us a visit under very extraordinary circumstances."
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