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Updated: May 12, 2025
The register of the church in which the ceremony took place is the important document, and that can neither be handed over nor destroyed. Krant was giving you withered leaves for your good gold, Pendle. Still, Needs must when Sir Urian drives, so I suppose you agreed to the bribe.
'I cannot tell; but he knew that his wife, after his desertion, devoted herself to good works, so no doubt he went to the church and asked about her. The old verger who saw us married is still alive, so I suppose he told Krant that Amy was my wife, and that I was the Bishop of Beorminster.
But Mosk knows that Amy is not my wife; that my marriage is illegal, that my children are nameless; out of revenge for my share in his arrest, he may tell someone the story and reveal the name of the church wherein Amy was married to Krant. Then the register there will disclose my secret to anyone curious enough to search the books. What shall I do? What can I do? I dare not visit Mosk.
She looked at the bishop, he looked at her, and they were both ashy white, both overcome with nervous emotion. After a moment the bishop opened a drawer and took out a bundle of papers. Out of these he selected the marriage certificate of his wife and Krant, and compared it with the certificate of Pharaoh Bosvile and Ann Whichello. 'Thank God! he said again, in a tremulous voice.
'Find him! echoed the bishop, passionately. 'No one on earth could have found the man. He did not exist. 'Then who wrote the letter? 'Krant himself, as he told me in this very room, the wicked plotter! 'But his handwriting; would not his wife have 'No! cried Pendle, rising and pacing to and fro, greatly agitated, 'the man disguised his hand so that his wife should not recognise it.
Don't tell me otherwise. I am married to you, and my children can hold up their heads with anyone. If Stephen Krant had come to me with his villainous tempting, I should have defied him, scorned him, trod him under foot. She rose in a tempest of passion and stamped on the carpet. 'He would have told; he would have disgraced us.
'Mrs Krant became your wife before the expiration of seven years, I know, said Graham, wrinkling his brow. 'Certainly. And therefore she is in the eyes of the law a bigamist' the bishop shuddered 'although, God knows, she fully believed her husband to be dead. But the religious point of view is the one I take, doctor; as a Churchman, I cannot live with a woman whom I know is not my wife.
Alas! alas! that letter was false! 'We both of us believed it to be genuine at the time, Pendle, and you went over to France after the war to see the man's grave. 'I did, and I saw the grave saw it with its tombstone, in a little Alsace graveyard, with the name Stephen Krant painted thereon in black German letters.
I was confused at first, as I knew the face but not the name. When he told me that he was Stephen Krant, that my wife was really his wife, that my children had no name, I I oh, God! cried Pendle, covering his face with his hands, 'it was terrible! terrible! 'My poor friend! The bishop threw himself into a chair.
'The certificate of marriage between Krant and his wife will reveal nothing to a man unacquainted with Mrs Pendle's previous name; and without such knowledge he cannot know that she married the bishop while her first husband was alive.
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