"You shall."
CHAPTER XXXIV.
FAREWELL TO LOUISIANA.
Gerald Leslie, William Bowen, and Philip Treverton accompanied Silas Craig to the attorney's office, where the wretched man refunded the hundred thousand dollars, and wrote a long and detailed confession of his guilt, which he signed in the presence of three witnesses.
This done, Gerald and his partner returned to the house of Augustus Horton, where they had left Mortimer Percy.
They found Augustus, Adelaide, and Mrs. Montresor seated in a brilliantly lighted apartment, communicating with the morning room that opened upon the garden.
Mortimer Percy was seated a little distance from his cousin, and it was evident that no reconciliation had taken place between them.
Adelaide and Mrs. Montresor were both engaged in some elegant needle-work, which afforded them an excellent excuse for silence.
Augustus stood near the open window smoking his cigar in moody stillness.
It was thus the group was occupied when Gerald Leslie and Philip Treverton returned from the lawyer's house.