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Not suspecting my reason for asking, she did so. Krant, she said, was tall, lean, swart and black-eyed, with a scar on the right cheek running from the ear to the mouth. Doctor! cried Gabriel, clutching Graham's hand, 'that is the very portrait of the man Jentham. 'Gabriel! whispered the little doctor, hoarsely, 'do you mean to say
'Yes, I know that Krant did not die at Sedan as we supposed. I know that he returned to life to Beorminster to you, under the name of Jentham! Hold up, man! don't give way, for the bishop, with a heavy sigh, had fallen forward on his desk, and, with his grey head buried in his arms, lay there silent and broken down in an agony of doubt, and fear and shame.
I have considered it in every way but, God help me! I can see no hope no escape. Alas! alas! I am sorely, sorely tried. Graham reflected. 'Are you perfectly certain that Jentham and Krant are one and the same man? he asked doubtfully. 'I am certain of it, replied Pendle, decisively. 'I could not be deceived in the dark gipsy face, in the peculiar cicatrice on the right cheek.
But the murderer knew it, for not only were the certificate and letters in the bundle, but there was also a sheet of memoranda set down by Krant, alias Jentham, which proved clearly that the so-called Mrs Pendle was really his wife. 'If I destroy these papers, thought the bishop, 'all immediate evidence likely to reveal the truth will be done away with.
'I mean to say that Krant did not die, that Jentham was Krant, and that when he called on my father he appeared as one from the dead. He is dead now, but he was alive when my mother became my father's wife. 'Impossible! Impossible! repeated Graham, who was ashy pale, and shaken out of his ordinary self. 'Krant died died at Sedan. Your father went over and saw his grave!
'Bosvile! continued the bishop, 'had previously made the acquaintance of my wife, then Amy Lancaster, under the false name of Stephen Krant; and so far won her love that, thinking him a single man, she consented to marry him.
Well, when Mrs Pendle returns to Beorminster, she may I don't say that she will, mind you but she may speak of Krant again, since, so far as she is concerned, there is no need for her to keep the fact of her first marriage secret. 'Except that she may not wish to recall unhappy days, put in the bishop, softly. 'Indeed, I wonder that Amy could bring herself to speak of Krant to her son and mine.
They cannot but be painful. 'Because the sight of that student's face recalled her first husband to my mother. She said that Krant had a long scar on the right cheek. I immediately thought of Jentham. 'Good God! cried Graham, pushing back his chair. 'What do you mean, lad? 'Wait! wait! said Gabriel, feverishly. 'I asked my mother to describe the features of her first husband.
And he knew all about my wife, Graham about her family, her maiden name, the amount of her fortune, her taking up parish work in Marylebone. Above all, he showed me the certificate of his marriage, and a number of letters written to him by Amy, reproaching him with his cruel desertion. Oh, there can be no doubt that this Jentham is or rather was Stephen Krant.
'He did not see the corpse, though. I tell you I am right, doctor. Krant did not die. My mother is not my father's wife, and we we George, Lucy and myself are in the eyes of the law nobody's children. The curate uttered these last words almost in a shriek, and fell back on the couch, covering his face with two trembling hands.
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