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You have no bad news to tell, I hope." "I have come to see Mr. Veeley; is he in?" "No," I replied; "he was unexpectedly called away this morning to Washington; cannot be home before to-morrow; but if you will make your business known to me "
"I don't know," he finally remarked, a slight frown, testifying to the fact that he was not altogether pleased with the turn affairs were taking. "Perhaps it would be best. The ladies must not be left alone " "Say no more; I will go." And, sitting down, I despatched a hurried message to Mr. Veeley, after which, and the few other preparations necessary, I accompanied the secretary to the street.
Some one besides Mrs. Darrell to help her bear her loneliness?" I knew what was coming, and strove to preserve my composure. "Yes," I replied; "a few." "Would you mind naming them?" How low her tones were, but how distinct! "Certainly not. Mrs. Veeley, Mrs. Gilbert, Miss Martin, and a a " "Go on," she whispered. "A gentleman by the name of Clavering."
Then, in a lower tone: "There is but one thing which really unnerves me; and that is my ignorance of what is going on at home. Sorrow I can bear, but suspense is killing me. Will you not tell me something of Mary and home? I cannot ask Mrs. Veeley; she is kind, but has no real knowledge of Mary or me, nor does she know anything of our estrangement.
Gryce, and proceeded immediately to the house of Mr. Veeley. "Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman." Old Song. "I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted." Measure for Measure. "YOU have never heard, then, the particulars of Mr. Leavenworth's marriage?" It was my partner who spoke. I had been asking him to explain to me Mr. Leavenworth's well-known antipathy to the English race.
Veeley speak of his eccentricities, giving as an instance this very fact of his making a will in favor of one niece to the utter exclusion of the other; but of his habits of life and connection with the world at large, I knew little or nothing.
"Oh," he returned, "the secretary! The coroner has been asking for you, sir." "The coroner is here, then?" "Yes; the jury have just gone up-stairs to view the body; would you like to follow them?" "No, it is not necessary. I have merely come in the hope of being of some assistance to the young ladies. Mr. Veeley is away."
I had been a junior partner in the firm of Veeley, Carr & Raymond, attorneys and counsellors at law, for about a year, when one morning, in the temporary absence of both Mr. Veeley and Mr. Carr, there came into our office a young man whose whole appearance was so indicative of haste and agitation that I involuntarily rose at his approach and impetuously inquired: "What is the matter?
Leavenworth was an old client of our firm, to say nothing of his being the particular friend of Mr. Veeley. "Yes, murdered; shot through the head by some unknown person while sitting at his library table." "Shot! murdered!" I could scarcely believe my ears. "How? when?" I gasped. "Last night. At least, so we suppose. He was not found till this morning. I am Mr.
Money became his idol, and the ambition to make and leave a great fortune behind him modified all his views of life. But one proof remained that he never forgot the wife of his youth, and that was, he could not bear to have the word 'Englishman' uttered in his hearing." Mr. Veeley paused, and I rose to go. "Do you remember how Mrs. Leavenworth looked?" I asked. "Could you describe her to me?"
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