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Your Sister, CLEONE. Barnabas refolded the letter and, giving it back to Barrymaine, took out Natty Bell's great silver watch. "It is a long way to Headcorn," said he, "I must start at once!" "Ah! You'll g-go then, Beverley?" "Go? Of course!" "Then, oh Beverley, whatever happens whether you're in time or no, you'll k-kill him?"
Ah, well! one more or less makes small difference among so many." So Barnabas rose, and lifting his glass with the others, drank to "Our Lady Cleone God bless her!"
Cleone, tell the gemmemen your real name! Well, I'll tell it for you. Sadie Mosher, sister to the great Felix Mosher who played heavy down at Shefsky's theater for twenty years. Goy! Say, Sammie, it's too bad a nut from the bug-house bought the Brooklyn Bridge to-day or I'd try to sell it to you."
"And she listens to the brook, Jack, don't you, my dove?" "Why, God-mother, I the brook? Of course not!" said Cleone. "And, consequently, Jack, you mustn't expect to keep her much longer " "Eh!" cried the bewildered Captain, "what's all this, Duchess, I say, what d'ye mean, mam?"
You mean that he has forced your hand, sir, and now you would make the best of it " "I mean that he has opened my eyes, madam." "And to-morrow you will tell Cleone?" "Yes." "And, of course, she will scorn you for an impudent impostor?" Now at this Barnabas flinched, for these were Chichester's own words, and they bore a double sting. "And yet I must tell her!" he groaned.
Cleone, my dear," said the Duchess, with one of her quick, incisive nods, "Cleone, this Barnabas of ours is either a madman or a fool! And yet stoop down, sir, here where I can see you, hum! And yet, Cleone, there are times when I think he is perhaps a little wiser than he seems, nothing is so baffling as simplicity, my dear!
On strode Barnabas, all unconscious, with his mind ever busied with thoughts of Cleone and the sudden, unaccustomed doubt in himself and his future that had come upon him. Presently he turned off to the right along a dirty street of squalid, tumble-down houses; a narrow, ill-lighted street which, though comparatively quiet by day, now hummed with a dense and seething life.
In this he became eminently successful, and acted as publisher for Pope, Johnson, and Akenside. He projected and pub. The Annual Register, and made a collection of Old English Plays, also of Poems by Several Hands in 6 vols. In addition to the original works above mentioned he wrote various plays and poems, including The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green , and Cleone .
Chichester was going on in his soft, deliberate voice: "Oh, it is all very simple, Cleone, and very clumsy, thus, see you. In the guise of Good Samaritan this stranger buys the debts of the brother, trusting to the gratitude of the sister. He knows your pride, Cleone, so he would buy your brother and put you under lasting obligation to himself.
"Sir," said he, "as I mentioned before, threats beget threats. Now, you move, and I move. I tell you, if you presume to interfere with me again in any way, or with my future plans in any way, then, in that same hour, Cleone shall know you for the impudent impostor you are!" So Mr. Chichcster laughed again, and laid his hand upon the latch of the door.
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