EYRES ACQUITTAL.
By Helen B. Mathers.
PART L
Chapter XL
When Mr. Eyre went to Synge lane
tie found Hester Clarke’s reply to his
message in the form of a sealed letter
to himself.
B had neither beginning nor ending,
and contained very few words; but
these were significant.
Janet Stork was dead, and she her
self returned to England immediately.
She had heard Mr. Eyre was resolved
to seek her out, and most solemnly
warned him to desist front any such at
tempt since she could not tell him
more than he did already know of,
and, for the sake of both the dead and
the living no one ou earth should force
her to open her lips on the subject.
“Justice* may yet,” said Mr. Eyre,
aloud as he folded the letter. “Tell
her this from me when you write, that
she shall speak, and I’ll have the whole
truth from her lips yet before 1 die;”
and he went out, with a curious fettling
that the battle was beginning over
again, and that the peace of the last
few weeks had been but a rest before
th** coming struggle. Ho the clew that
had dropped from Frank’s d*ad hand
was held safe in Hester’s living one.
And h<* would find and wrest it from
her, though it took him a dozen years
of search.
