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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Undoubtedly. I shouldn't wonder if the blockhead aunt told. Well, the wedding-day came; they were married; and just as they came out of the church, up walks a detective, claps his hand on Northway's shoulder, and arrests him for forgery." "H'm! I see." "The fellow was tried. Lilian wouldn't tell me the details; she gave me an old newspaper with full report.
"They hang people for forgery." "No, they don't at least, not for that sort," she argued, her eyes very bright with the working of her inward idea. "For how can it be forgery when it is your name I write, and I've told you of it beforehand? It's my father's money, isn't it, and he gives it to you for marrying me? Very well, then, it's yours no, I mean it's Tom's because he means to marry me.
His face paled, but he managed to stammer sharply: "What what what d'you mean? Forgery? Do you mean to say I sell forgeries? Forgery? It wasn't a forgery!" "Then," continued Hewitt in the same deliberate tone, watching the other's face the while, "if it wasn't a forgery, why did you destroy it and burst your trap-door and desk to imitate a burglary?"
"Alone?" he exclaimed. "Yes she ordered me in with her and sent the Countess with Moore." He sat up sharply. "Gad! Major, she's a treasure!" he exclaimed. "That tells me what I want to know: she has measured the Spencer woman's story." "Both story and certificate," said I. "She says the one is a lie and the other a forgery." He raised his hand emphatically.
I spent hours of thought over the question of the trap-door how to break it open so as to leave a genuine appearance, and especially how to bolt it inside after I had reached the roof. I thought I had succeeded beyond the possibility of suspicion; how you penetrated the device surpasses my comprehension. How, to begin with, could you possibly know that the cameo was a forgery?
He is guilty of forgery against me, and, against my conscience, I hushed the matter only out of consideration for her feelings. I would still have concealed the matter from her, had this resumption of their intimacy not occurred. But her welfare must cancel all scruples of that character; and I therefore entreat you to see her at once, and unmask the man fully and unequivocally.
'It is that yesterday I did not know him, and to-day I do. Her brother, a common tradesman, a man guilty of forgery and the utmost baseness all but kicked out of the house! The Duke was too delicate to press her further. Moreover, Caroline had emphasized the 'yesterday' and 'to-day, showing that the interval which had darkened Evan to everybody else, had illumined him to her.
But now, reader, comes the very gist and point of the whole matter. This lying monument to a dishonored doge, this culminating pride of the Renaissance art of Venice, is at least veracious, if in nothing else, in its testimony to the character of its sculptor. He was banished from Venice for forgery in 1487.
'No, sir, not at all, sir, said I; 'I'm Sir John Bull's, at your sarvice. He puzzles and puzzles, and asks me did I bring the draft, and was that your writing at the bottom of it? I still said it was my master's writing, Sir John Bull's, and no other. They whispered from one up to t'other, and then said it was a forgery, as I overheard, and I must go before the mayor.
The person, whose name he thus rashly and criminally presumed to falsify, was the Earl of Chesterfield , to whom he had been tutor, and who, he perhaps, in the warmth of his feelings, flattered himself would have generously paid the money in case of an alarm being taken, rather than suffer him to fall a victim to the dreadful consequences of violating the law against forgery, the most dangerous crime in a commercial country; but the unfortunate divine had the mortification to find that he was mistaken.
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