She gave me a bitter smile, as she replied, "Yes, at times; and drawn from various resources. He laughs to scorn now my marriage ring; and yet he wears the diamond one which I gave him in the days when we were engaged lovers, and which had once been my dear father's."
The diamond which she gave him! Here, then, was another, and the most probable version of the history of that remarkable brilliant.
"Of what was it that he deprived you by force, before his horse leaped the wall?"
"A locket which I wore at my neck, suspended by a ribbon," said she, as her tears began to fall again.
"He has the family solicitor with him at Walcot Park, I understand," said I.
"They are visiting there together. Mr. Sharpus came on business, and my husband accompanied him."
"Why not appeal to this legal man?
"I have done so many times."
"And he--"
"Fears Mr. Guilfoyle and dare not move in the matter, or affects to disbelieve me."