"I am excellent friends with him and with his future wife, Anne Colmer. You know, of course, that they are going to be married in a month or so, that is, if Mrs. Colmer does not die in the meantime?"
"From what I hear from Garth, it is likely that she will die," said Fanks. "I expect the poor woman will be glad to go now that she sees her daughter will make a good marriage."
"Garth came to see me the other day," said Louis, "and he told me that at one time he thought I had committed the crime."
"I thought so, too," said Fanks, quietly. "Mrs. Jerusalem did her best to make me suspect you."
"I am glad you found that I was guiltless. By the way, where is Mrs. Jerusalem?"
"She is keeping house for Garth. I hear that Hersham gave Garth some money, knowing how hard-up he was, so he has set up a house on the strength of it. I don't envy Garth his housekeeper."
"Oh, she loves him in her own savage way," said Louis, coolly. "I daresay when he marries he will give her the go-by. I am sure she deserves it for the double way in which she treated me. Then she will go to the Union, or become an emigrant to America, like Messrs. Binjoy and Turnor."
"Why America?"
"She has a sister there. I wonder what those two scoundrelly doctors are doing in the States?"
"Evil, you may be sure of that," replied Fanks. "Let us hope that they will be lynched some day. I am sure that they deserve it."