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Updated: May 22, 2025
But she put her fingers firmly on his arm. "He has gone so far," she said, "let him go on to the end. Let him omit no word, let us hear every ugly thing the creature has to say." Dillworth sat back in his chair at ease, with a supercilious smile. He passed the girl and addressed my father. "You will recall the details of that robbery," he said in his complacent, piping voice.
"Well," said the hunchback, "since my brother David rode away from my door and you know that I am free of obligation for him." "It is Cain's speech!" replied my father. The hunchback put back his long hair with a swift brush of the fingers across his forehead. "Dillworth," cried my father, and his voice filled the empty places of the room, "is the mark there?" The hunchback began to curse.
"Dillworth," cried my father, in a great voice, like one who would startle a creature out of mania, "you will write a deed in your legal manner granting these lands to your brother's child.
"To-day, when I rode into the county seat to a sitting of the justices," continued my father, "the sheriff showed me some gold eagles that your man from Maryland, Mr. Henderson, had paid in on court costs. Look, Dillworth, there is one of them, and with your thumb nail on the milled edge you can scrape off the indigo!" The hunchback looked at the spinning coin, but he did not touch it.
"Where did he ride then? A man and a horse could not vanish." "They did vanish," said my father. "Now you utter fool talk!" cried Dillworth. "I speak the living truth," replied my father. "Your brother David and your horse disappeared out of sound and hearing disappeared out of the sight and knowledge of men after he rode away from your door on that fatal night."
And she wanted me to promise that I wouldn't do over the drawing-room." "The very thing you are marrying for!" "Exactly. So she packed him off to India." "Hard luck but you can do better than Dillworth." He offered the box, and she took out three or four cigarettes, putting one between her lips and slipping the others into a little gold case attached to her long pearl chain. "Have I time?
The man stood thus, unmoving, silent, with his twisted ironical smile, while my father put the girl into a chair and stood up behind it. "Dillworth," said my father, "what do you mean by turning this child out of the house?" The man looked steadily at the two persons before him.
"I observed it carefully, for I thought the gold pieces might turn up sometime, and the blue indigo stain might be on them when they first appeared." Dillworth leaned far back in his chair, his legs tangled under him, his eyes on my father, in reflection. Finally he spoke. "You are far-sighted," he said.
"Dillworth," he said, "it was strange that no man ever saw your brother or the horse after the night he visited you in this house." "It was dark," replied the man. "He rode from this door through the gap in the mountains into Maryland." "He rode from this door," said my father slowly, "but not through the gap in the mountains into Maryland." The hunchback began to twist his fingers.
It was you, Dillworth, who cleaned the estate of everything but land." "I conducted my father's business," said the hunchback, "for him, since he was ill. But I put the moneys from these sales into his hand and he gave them to my brother." "I have never heard that your brother David got a dollar of this money." The hunchback was undisturbed. "It was a family matter and not likely to be known."
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