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Also, continued Graham, with the air of a person clinching an argument, 'if you and Mrs Pendle are to part, my poor friend, she must be told the reason for such separation. 'Part! echoed the bishop, indignantly. 'My dear Amy and I shall never part, doctor. I wonder that you can suggest such a thing. Now that Krant is dead beyond all doubt, I shall marry his widow at once.
Who would have believed that Krant was such a scoundrel? 'I called him that when he came to see me here, said Dr Pendle, with a passionate gesture. 'Old man and priest as I am, I could have killed him as he sat in yonder chair, smiling at my misery, and taunting me with my position. 'How did he find out that you had married Mrs Krant? 'By going back to the Marylebone parish.
'Is it your belief that the woman knows your secret? asked Graham. 'No. On consideration, I concluded that she knew a little, but not much at all events, not sufficient to hurt me in any way. Krant that is Jentham was of gipsy blood, and I fancied that he had seen Mother Jael, and perhaps, in his boastful way, had hinted at his power over me.
Jentham may not be Krant as you suspect. It may be a chance likeness a Gabriel shook his head. 'You can't argue away what I know to be true, he muttered, looking at the floor with dry, wild eyes. 'See my father and tell him what I have told you. He will not be able to deny his shame and the disgrace of his children.
Some friend introduced him to my father as a Hungarian exile hiding under the name of Krant from Austrian vengeance; and my father, enthusiastic on the subject of patriotism, admitted him to our house. I was then a weak, foolish girl, and his wicked brilliancy drew me towards him. When he learned that I had money of my own he proposed to marry me.
'It thus appears, resumed the bishop, concisely, 'that when I married as I thought Amy Krant, a widow, in September 1871, I really and truly wedded Amy Lancaster, a spinster. Therefore this lady' and here the bishop clasped tenderly the hand of Mrs Pendle 'is my true, dear wife, and has been legally so these many years, notwithstanding Bosvile's infamous assertion to the contrary.
'Thank God! said the bishop, fervently; then added, almost immediately, 'You say my wife. Alas! alas! that I dare not call her so. 'It is true, then? asked Graham, becoming very pale. 'Perfectly true. Krant was not killed. Krant returned here under the name of Jentham. My wife is not my wife! My children are illegitimate; they have no name; outcasts they are. Oh, the shame!
'But you have not done sin! cried Graham, dissenting from the text. 'You! your wife! myself! everyone thought that Krant was dead and buried. The man fled, and lied, and forged, to gain his freedom to shake off the marriage bonds which galled him. He was the sinner, not you, my poor innocent friend! 'True enough, doctor, but I am the sufferer.
I sha'n't breathe a word about that Krant marriage to a single, solitary soul, and when I dies the secret will die with me. You're actin' square by my poor gal, sir, so I'm agoin' to act square by you. It ain't for me to cover with shame the name as you're goin' to give my Bell. 'Thank you! gasped Gabriel, whose emotion at this promise was so great that he could hardly speak, 'thank you!
Certainly she might have mentioned Pendle's name in the letters, but she would not write of him as a lover or as a possible husband; therefore, unless the assassin knows something of the story, which is improbable, and unless he can connect the name of Mrs Krant with Mrs Pendle which on the face of it is impossible I do not see how he is to learn the truth.
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