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I've told you a little about him, but it would take me all day to tell you what he really has done and " "Hold on, Mr. Damon!" laughed Tom, as he shook hands with the man whom Mr. Damon had named Dixwell Hardley. "Hold on, if you please. There's a limit to it, you know, and already you've said enough about me to "
"At first I was not sure of what happened, but now I am positive he stole the papers and took them to sea with him. What happened to them after that I don't know. But if I had Dixwell Hardley here now I I'd " Mr. Keith fell back in a faint on the bed, and, in great alarm, Tom summoned the nurse. Mary Nestor, as well as Tom Swift, felt great alarm over the condition of Mr. Keith.
A lineal descendant of the old regicide is very near to me by family connection, Colonel Dixwell having come to this country, married, and left a posterity, which has resumed the name, dropped for the sake of safety at the time when he, Goffe, and Whalley, were in concealment in various parts of New England. We lunched with the Speaker, and had the pleasure of the company of Archdeacon Farrar.
After many hardships in life, which Mr. Keith related in some detail to Tom, the oil-well prospector at last fell in with Dixwell Hardley. Then followed the combination of interests. "We are actually partners," declared Mr. Keith. "I agreed to do the work, and he agreed to furnish the money. I must say this for him, that he kept to that end of the bargain.
It was soon added, that he had been actually recognised in New York, in a farmer's attire, selling cabbages; but he probably went no further than Newhaven, where he would naturally visit Dixwell, and so returned to Hadley, whence his last letter bears date, 1679, and where he undoubtedly died the following year. How the two bodies ever got to Newhaven has long been the puzzle.
"I put up a fight, naturally, and took the matter to court. But when it came to trial Dixwell Hardley did not appear, and, though I won a technical victory over him, I never got any money." "Where was he during the trial?" asked Tom. "At sea, I believe." "At sea?" "Yes, he was mixed up in some South American revolution, I heard."
Nevertheless, there are a few omissions, which I should be glad to see supplied. For instance, you make no mention of the good knight, Sir Richard Saltonstall, nor of the famous Hugh Peters, nor of those old regicide judges, Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell. Yet I have borne the weight of all these distinguished characters, at one time or another."
"The glorious Revolution," as it is called, was a "crowning mercy" to the colonies; and the friends of the late regicide now boldly produced his will, and submitted it to Probate. It devised to his heirs a considerable estate in England, and described his own style and title as "John Dixwell, alias James Davids, of the Priory of Folkestone, in the county of Kent, Esquire."
If Dixwell was not himself the engraver of these rude devices, he doubtless contrived them; and they have well accomplished their purpose, of avoiding detection in their own day, and attracting notice in ours.
Keith he could see that the man's health was indeed fast waning. Wasting little time in preliminaries, the object of the visit was told and Tom showed the passport photograph of Dixwell Hardley. "Is that the man who cheated you on the oil-well deal?" asked the young inventor. "I won't admit he has yet cheated me, but he is trying to!" exclaimed Mr.
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