If anything happened to me, and if my desire to do their mother justice, ended (through my miserable ignorance of the law) in leaving Norah and Magdalen disinherited, I should not rest in my grave! Come at any cost, to yours ever, "A.

V." "On the Saturday morning," Mr.Pendril resumed, "those lines reached me.
I instantly set aside all other business, and drove to the railway.

At the London terminus, I heard the first news of the Friday's accident; heard it, with conflicting accounts of the numbers and names of the passengers killed.

At Bristol, they were better informed; and the dreadful truth about Mr.Vanstone was confirmed.

I had time to recover myself before I reached your station here, and found Mr.Clare's son waiting for me.