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"I'd nearly as soon undertake to find out the locality of the one as of the other. Cannonby did go to Paris; but where he may be now, is quite another affair." "Was he going there for any length of time?" "I fancy not. Most likely he is back in London by this time. Had he told me he was coming back, I should have paid no attention to it. He never knows his own mind two hours together."
Why should he have said it, if he did not?" "True," murmured Lionel. "He said the burial-service had been read over him. I remember that, well. I reproached Captain Cannonby with not having come back to me immediately, or sent for me that I might at least have seen him dead, if not alive.
"What a fine place!" exclaimed Captain Cannonby, bringing his steps to a halt as he gazed at it. "Yes, it is. Not a pleasant prospect, was it, to contemplate the being turned out of it by a dead man." "A dead You do not mean to say that Frederick Massingbird if in life would be the owner of Verner's Pride?" "Yes, he would be.
I was its rightful heir, and why my uncle willed it away from me, to one who was no blood relation, has remained a mystery to this day. Frederick Massingbird succeeded, to my exclusion. I only came into it at his death." Captain Cannonby appeared completely thunderstruck at the revelation.
Captain Cannonby promised to make inquiries, but we had not heard from him before I came away. I wish we could have found Luke Roy." "Did you not find him?" "We heard of him from the Eyres the friends I was staying with. It was so singular," she continued, with some animation in her tone. "Luke Roy came to Melbourne after John was killed, and fell in with the Eyres.
At that moment there were no passers-by to fix it; the bustle of Deerham only began with the houses, and those they had not yet reached. "I would give all my future life to believe you," earnestly spoke Lionel; "to believe that there can be no mistake for my wife's sake." "There is no mistake," reiterated Captain Cannonby. "I saw him dead; I saw him buried.
He awaited the fiat with feverish heat; and wished the fast express engine would travel faster. The terminus gained at last, a hansom took him to Dr. Cannonby's. It was half-past two o'clock. He leaped out of the cab and rang, entering the hall when the door was opened. "Can I see Dr. Cannonby?" "The doctor's just gone out, sir. He will be home at five."
It was very strange that it should be so; that he should not openly show himself. There was another way by which perhaps the doubt might be solved as it suddenly occurred to Lionel. And that was through Captain Cannonby. If this gentleman really was with Frederick Massingbird when he died, and saw him buried, it was evident that it could not be Frederick come back to life.
Massingbird, and on his return from Australia he frequently spoke of her to me as Mrs. Massingbird, so that I got into the habit of thinking of her as such. It was not until he went to Paris that he heard she had exchanged the name for that of Verner." A thought crossed Lionel that this was the news which had taken Captain Cannonby down to him.
I supposed it to be Cannonby; but Tynn says Cannonby has not been here." The question appeared to divert her thoughts into another channel. "Cannonby! What should bring him here? Did you expect him to come?" "Drink your wine, and then I will tell you," he said, holding the glass towards her. She pushed the wine from her capriciously. "I don't want wine now. I am hot. I should like some water."
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