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"Good heavens, ma'am!" I cried, imagining all kinds of ill, "what is amiss?" "Oh, Mr. Bold," says the good lady, "I am so glad to see you. We are in such trouble." "Have the Cluddes got her?" I asked, Mistress Lucy being uppermost in my thoughts. "No, it is not so bad as that, though I fear that will be the end of it.
Where in the name of Beelzebub did you learn it? And so it all came out, and the whole story of the villainous doings of those Cluddes and Lawyer Vetch " "Stay, sir," I interrupted; "Mr. Vetch is a very dear friend of mine, and I would lay my life he is innocent of any share of the trickery that lost me my father's lands." "Maybe, maybe: I know the story of the will," said Mr. Allardyce.
Allardyce would raise if he believed his niece had been conveyed thither, the Cluddes had arranged to remove her to a distance until the legal matter then pending should have been decided in their favor. I remembered hearing Dick once speak of some relatives at Worcester, and in all likelihood that had been his destination.
He was accounted a good lawyer until that unhappy business of my father's will, and as he has no reason to love the Cluddes, or his nephew either, I am sure he would give the best advice he knows." "Do so, by all means; 'twill be some comfort to know that my man is taking the right course." We sat till near midnight, and Mr.
"He is the boon fellow of young Cludde; 'tis the Cluddes who gain by the disappearance, and mightily glad they will be of the property if all is true that's said of Sir Richard's affairs. Where's your nephew, Vetch?" "At home and abed, Captain, suffering from a catarrh.
Venables, for he looked at me oddly, and asked if I had had bad news. I evaded the question, and he did not press me. It was indeed bad news in this respect; that 'twas clear the Cluddes knew of Mistress Lucy's whereabouts. Indeed, for all I knew, Sir Richard himself might have got well of his gout and made the voyage to secure his ward.
He was soon back, and when he had heard me through my account of what had befallen me since I saw him last, he broke out into vehement denunciation of Cyrus Vetch and all the race of Cluddes. Vetch himself happening to pass at that moment, wearing the hangdog look habitual to him since fate had made him a prisoner, Joe bursts out: "Ay, you may well look ashamed of yourself, you villain!
I could not doubt now that 'twas my old enemy had wreaked on me the vengeance that had smouldered in his breast ever since Joe Punchard sent him down Wyle Cop in the barrel, and was fanned into a flame by my action on the night of the adventure in Raven Street. Mistress Pennyquick was firm in her belief that the Cluddes were party to the crime, but that I could not credit then, and never will.
It wanted but a few months to her coming of age, and while I knew that Dick could not wed her during her minority, I saw that the very shortness of the time left would make the Cluddes eager to get her under their influence.
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