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John Caldigate

CHAPTER XXIV
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If you will not do this, both I and Crinkett, and the other man who was present at our marriage, and Anne Young, who has been with me ever since, will go at once to England, and the law must take its course.
'I have no scruple in demanding this as you owe me so much more.
'Allan, the Wesleyan who married us, has gone out of the colony, no one knows where,--but I send you the copy of the certificate; and all the four of us who were there are still together.

And there were others who were at Ahalala at the time, and who remember the marriage well.

Dick Shand was not in the chapel, but Dick knew all about it.

There is quite plenty of evidence.
'Send back by the wire word what you will do, and let your agent come over as soon as possible.
'EUPHEMIA CALDIGATE.' However true or however false the allegations made in the above letter may have been, for a time it stunned him greatly.

This letter reached him about a month before the birth of his son, and for a day or two it disturbed him greatly.


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