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Nor were his domestic relations less happy he had a charming wife, who was one of the best known and most popular ladies of Melbourne, and an equally charming daughter, who, being both pretty and an heiress, naturally attracted crowds of suitors. But Madge Frettlby was capricious, and refused innumerable offers.
Mark Frettlby looked up suddenly, as Fitzgerald asked this question. "She went to England in 1858," said the aged one. "I'm not quite sure if it was July or August, but it was in 1858." "You will excuse me, Valpy, but I hardly think that these reminiscences of a ballet-dancer are amusing," said Frettlby, curtly, pouring himself out a glass of wine. "Let us change the subject."
"Why, Mother Guttersnipe did not know this she thought Rosanna was his mistress." "He kept his marriage secret," answered Brian, "and as his wife ran away with someone else shortly afterwards, he never revealed it." "I understand now," said the barrister, slowly. "For if Mark Frettlby was lawfully married to Rosanna Moore Madge is illegitimate."
Frettlby, with an amused smile, "criminals would be pretty safe." "Oh, I don't know so much about that," answered Felix, shrewdly; "some fellows are like trifle at a party, froth on top, but something better underneath." "What a greedy simile," said Calton, sipping his wine; "but I'm afraid the police will have a more difficult task in discovering the man who committed the crime.
Mr. Frettlby was not present. He was inside writing letters, and talking with old Mr. Valpy, and Brian gave a sigh of relief as he noted his absence. Madge caught sight of him as he came down the garden path, and flew quickly towards him with outstretched hands, as he took his hat off. "How good of you to come," she said, in a delighted tone, as she took his arm, "and on such a hot day."
Frettlby, the day after Brian's arrest, had a long conversation with his daughter, and wanted her to go up to Yabba Yallook Station until the public excitement had somewhat subsided. But this Madge flatly refused to do. "I'm not going to desert him when he most needs me," she said, resolutely; "everybody has turned against him, even before they have heard the facts of the case.
Frettlby, who was looking at him with an amused smile. "What news have you?" "Good news, bad news, and such news as you have never heard of," quoted Rolleston gravely. "Yes, I have a bit of news haven't you heard it?" Rolleston felt he held sensation in his hands. There was nothing he liked better.
"Oh, nothing," answered Fitzgerald, hastily, and just then his eyes met those of Frettlby. The two men looked at one another steadily for a moment, but in that short space of time a single name flashed through their brains the name of Rosanna Moore. Mr. Frettlby was the first to lower his eyes, and break the spell.
As soon as Brian received the telegram which announced the death of Mark Frettlby, he put on his hat, stepped into Calton's trap, and drove along to the St. Kilda station in Flinders Street with that gentleman. There Calton dismissed his trap, sending a note to his clerk with the groom, and went down to St. Kilda with Fitzgerald.
"How did Frettlby die?" asked Calton. "Heart disease," said Chinston. "His heart was very much affected, as I discovered a week or so ago. It appears he was walking in his sleep, and entering the drawing-room, he alarmed Miss Frettlby, who screamed, and must have touched him. He awoke suddenly, and the natural consequences followed he dropped down dead."
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