MARION'S UNCLE.

A Case for the Detectives.

By SYLVANUS COBB, Jctn.

CHAPTER XVII

THE ABDUCTION.

Wednesday morning dawned clear and bright. Paul Sheridan was not only early astir, but he found considerable work on his hands—work that taxed his ingenuity to the utmost; for Jasper Renwick was also an early bird on that morning,and Paul would not lose sight of him until he had seen him safely housed at the bank.

Renwick's first movement was to the Spanish brig, which was then lying at the pier; but preparations were making for giving her berth to another vessel. A few moments before the clerk arrived on the pier, a robust, weather-worn, storm-beaten pilot, with a beard that might have shamed a pard, boarded the brig. He said he had agreed to meet the pilot who was to take the Santa Clara out, on her deck at that hour. He would wait for him a few minutes, but not longer.

However, he was near at hand when Jasper Benwick came on board, and contrived, without betraying his in terest, to overhear very nearly all that was said. If he did not distinctly hear the words of the visitor, he caught the gruff notes of the skipper easily, and that answered every purpose.

While the confidential clerk was at an unusually early breakfast —and that, too, with an appetite after his morn ing's jaunt — Paul Sheridan slipped into Peter Tappit's rear coop, where he threw off his rough pilot's rig, and as sumed the garb and appearance of an Italian image-vendor. Then from a small closet, of which he had the key, he took a board, with proper guards at the ends and sides to prevent the pro perty from slipping off, and having placed thereon a few plaster casts of various shapes and sizes, he was ready to issue forth again. ' Bedad, Paul, I hope yell make a success of it. The Lord knows ye've worked hard enough.'

* I think I see the end, Peter. If I'm not mistaken, I'll report to-morrow morning.' ' Good! Good! By the beard io' Moses! but ye desarve success, me hoy !' And again the genial old cob bler looked admiringly after his hero as he departed, with the stand of images on his head. One of the vilest and lowest sections of the city was a place known as Rackett's Cove. From time immemorial it had been the habitat of the very scums and offscourings of society. Jlere, close upon the water's edge—in fact, its rear parf was built over the tide—stood an ancient wooden build ing, which had at one time, when ships had unloaded, there, been a store house for merchandise, but that had been ages agone. It was now a tenement house, but not all occupied, for there were parts of it that were simply in ruins, and its owner evidently did not think them worth repairing. It was of large size, .three stories high, with an open court of mud on two sides, the only safe approach being in front, where the broken pavement was, in some places, above the slime. To this old ruin, shortly before eight o'clock on "Wednesday morning, came Jasper Ren wick. There were two doors in front of the wreck, and he went in at the first to which he came, ascend ing the rotten old stairs to a room on the second floor, where he found a man and a woman —dirty, ill-looking crea tures, in the midst of rags ) rags every where, of every kind and description; rags in heaps, and rags in rows j rags hanging in hampers, and rags for a car pet. In short, it was the abode of a rag-gathering company, the company being the man and the woman there present. Their work-people—a hun dred or more—were long ago abroad about their business.

The man was more than 50, strong and able, and certainly not ill-fed. The woman was perhaps a few years older —a fat, red-faced, dirty woman, her rheumy eyes full of greed and poor whiskoy. Here Jasper Eenwiclc remained a quarter of an hour. Before he left he gave the woman money,.and promised her more when she had rendered the service she had promised. As he heard the clocks of the city churches striking the hour of 8 he turned to depart. The woman went with him out into the hall, to show him an apartment on the opposite side of the landing, where their army of rag-pickers ate and slept, • Bless you, good sir, the brats fiever

comes into our special apartment. No, indeed; there's too much there to tempt them sometimes. Don't you worrit. All will be as safe and snug as a bug in a rag.' The confidential clerk appeared to be satisfied, and without further re mark took his leave. On the outer steps, as he emerged from the lower door, lie looked carefully around in every possible direction, and finding the coast clear, he started up towards the better part of the town, walking rapidly. When he had got safely away, a man quietly emerged from the ad joining entrance. It was our image vendor with his stand of wares on his head ; and having made sure that the clerk was off, he ascended the stairs to the rag-merchant's apartment. ' Get out! Out ye go, ye miserable parley-voo ! We don—' The woman was thus exclaiming, and the man had brought to light a large pistol, when the new-comer, having set down his images, turned upon them with : • Hold on, my good people ! Before you go any further just take a look at that !' And he opened his green, out landish frock, thus exposing beneath a blue vest, with a good star on the breast. The effect on the pair was electrical.

' Lord o' mercy, sir ! we didn't mean anything. Leastwise, we didn't know what you was.' Sheridan first put the wretches at their ease, and then proceeded to win them to his purpose. This he partly did through hope of gain, but more through fear. In short, they had their choice, either to serve him faithfully, for such reward as he might sec fit to give, or to go to prison. They knew very well that his threat was not idle nor empty, so they surrendered.

'Of course,' he said, when he had drawn from the woman a detailed statement of Renwick's business— JVilmot, the clerk had told them his name was—'of course, you will keep what money ho has already given you ; and you may get from him more, if you can ; and while you are appearing to serve him you must really be serv ing me. Do you understand V Yes —they understood.

' Serve me faithfully, as I have pointed out,' he concluded, after he had stated the case, ' and you shall be safe. No harm shall come to you. But if you fail me in the least particu lar, you shall land in the lock-up, the pair of you!' 'Indeed and in truth, Mr Officer,' said the woman, with a touch of honest feeling in look and tone, ' you've no reason to doubt us, for I swear to you we'd rather do good than do evil. I swear it!'

An hour later Paul Sheridan was made up, this time at home, and by his wife, to personate a respectable old man of three-score-and-ten, with white hair, a beardless, wrinkled face, a pair of gold-bowed spectacles, and a gold headed cane. In this guise he spent fully an hour in Wilmot's bank, and another hour in the Calumet Bank. Later in the day he threw off all dis guise, appearing in propria persona, ready for legitimate work, but with material at hand for instant transfor mation, on a minor scale, in case of sudden emergency.

At about that same hour—that on which Sheridan appeared in his proper guise—Marion Wilmot, sitting with Walter in his upper chamber, was dis turbed by a gentle tap on the door, and on answering the summons she found Mrs Bagley outside, with a sealed note in her hand. The girl took it and broke it open, and as she read a cry of sympathy broke from her lips. The housekeeper, on being ques tioned, told her that a messenger boy had brought it, saying it was to be de livered immediately.

' Oh, Walter ! I must leave you for a little while. Here is a note from Mrs Veazey. Poor, dear Lora has met with a bad accident, and is crying to see me. I will go to her at once. It is only a little distance.'

Walter could not find it in his heart to advise her not to go; for Lora Veazey was one of their dearest friends, and one of the best; but he strongly urged her to call a carnage. She said she would do so ; and having promised that she would come to him as soon as she returned, she hurried away.

It required but a few minutes for her preparation, and when she was ready she went to speak with Mrs Bagley; but the housekeeper had just gone out into the clothes-yard, and she concluded not to wait for her. She left word with one of the servants, however, that she would not be gone more than an hour ; and with that she left the house. On the stoop she cast her eyes about for a conveyance, but could see nothing. ' Poor Lora ! Why should I tarry for a coach 1 Pshaw ! I shall be there before one comes in sight.'

Then she tripped lightly down the granite steps, and sped on her way. The distance, as she had said, was not great, though farther, pp.ihaps, than it had appeared in her eager haste ; but she would have smiled at the thought of danger. She had walked to and fro from Mrs Veazey's a hundred times, and at all hours of day and evening, and danger had not yet appeared. Be sides, it was one of the most quiet and most populous districts of the city. At the first corner, where she must turn into another street, stood a small stone church. She passed this, and beyond came a dead wall, at the end of which was a narrow lane or alley, leading to a rear entrance to the ancient church-yard. Upon reaching this alley she was accosted by a bright-looking, though shabbily-dressed boy, who asked her: ' Be you Miss Marion f 1 Yes. lam Marion Wilmot.' • I fetched you a letter,' • 0 ! Was it you who brought it ?'

1 Yes, Miss Lora's up here ; and her mother is with her. She's real bad !—

awful!' ' Up where ?—where V Marion cried eagerly. 'Up there, where you see that coach.' She looked and saw a handsome coach, like a clarence, with two horses attached, and a man standing at then heads. She had but one thought: PoorLora, badly hurt, suffering, with liersorrowing mother—probably in that coach. Of danger she did not dream. She did not even reflect how next to impossible the whole thing really ap peared. How could Mrs Veazey have written that letter, in such seeming haste, and be now there, in that coach 1

She sped swiftly up the narrow way, and had reached the rear wheel of the vehicle, when two men sprang from the archway of the church-yard gate, one of whom caught both her arms, while the other threw a thick mantle over her head, at the same time press ing a hand over her mouth. Then she was lifted and seated in the coach, the man who held her mouth getting in by her side,still maintaining his film hold. Before she could free her hands so as to struggle with the wretch, the second man had entered the vehicle, and taken a seat directly before her. Ho caught her wrists, and held them tightly ; and in a moment more they were in motion. The alley ran through from street to street, so there had been no occasion to turn. In a very few seconds the coach had entered a broad and well paved thoroughfare, where the horses were urged to their swiftest pace. By this time Marion had so far re covered her senses that she could at least think. She saw that resistance on her part would be worse than useless. She had made a discovery, too, that rather tended to give her strength than otherwise. She had recognised the voice of Jasper Renwiek ; and she fancied she had recognised his features when she had been first assailed. Her indignation was only equalled by her disgust. Presently the muffling gag was so far released that she was able to speak.

' Let me breathe !' she gasped. ' If I let you breathe freely, will you promise to be silent V ' Yes.'

The mantle, or shawl, or whatever it was, was removed, and by the dim light of the closely-closed coach—its windows heavily curtained—she saw, sitting before her and facing her, a stranger, roughly clad—evidently a sailor—while by her side she found, as she'had expected, Jasper Kenwick !

Hot words were on her lips. Per haps, had they sprang up less furiously, she would have given them utterance ; but in her intense passion she choked ; and while she choked she thought. It might be a real pleasure to the wretch if she would speak to him, even angrily. It might yield him a grim satisfaction if she would give him occasion to defy her and talk of his triumph.

1 Well, Marion !' at the end of what had probably seemed to him an age, ' aren't you going to speak to me 1 Why don't you abuse me V Why it should be she could not tell. In fact, she was herself surprised by the sense of strength and security that had suddenly come to her with the villain's speech. It had flashed upon her, though at the moment she did not fully realise it, that her uncle and his able assistants had knowledge of every movement of the rascal, and she did not believe he would be suffered to do her harm.

' Say, darling ! Won't you speak a word 1 Come, —you are mine now, beyond the power of mortal man to take you from me. Let me hear what you think of it. How do you feel about it 1 The prospect isn't so very dreadful, is it 1

She looked up into his face bravely, and he shrank. She saw it, and from that moment took new courage.

' Mr Reuwick,' she said, proudly, ' I wish to have no conversation with you. If I must bear your company, I must; but I do not choose to converse.'

' All right. You'll be glad enough to talk by-and-by.'

And then silence fell between them. The clerk might have said more, but the presence of his helper was a re straint.

On they went—it seemed a long time to the kidnapped girl—on for more than half an hour, and when they finally stopped the driver got down and opened the door of the carriage. ' Shall I throw this hoodwink over your head again ¥ asked Ren wick, spite fully. Her silence — sulkiness, he thought it—had made him mad, and his speech showed it.

' There is no need,' was, the quiet, dignified reply. Crying aloud would have been of little use in that locality, as Marion clearly saw as she alighted. She could not have believed there was such a forlorn and iilthy place in the city, or near it. She could see the town not far away: and ships and busy wharves were near at hand. She looked before her and saw—Mercy! was she to be taken into that place % ' Come!' . As Ren wick thus spoke, his assistant approached and ottered to help. 'No! no!' cried the girl. 'I will go. Do not let him touch me !' ' Upon my soul, Marion, you take it very coolly !' exclaimed the puzzled man, for puzzled he was, certainly, by her behaviour. 'Because,' she answered, CI know you dare not offer me harm.' 'Ha! Dare not?' iNo !It would be more than your pitiful life is worth.' He tried to laugh, but it was a lamentable failure. He said no more. Up the creaking, broken stairs they went, and at the landing were met by the rag-woman, who led the way into her parlour. Marion entered the room and cast a

swift glance around. The first thing she saw was a window—two of them —dirty and-dingy, stuffed in many places with rags in place of glass, and guarded by stout iron bars. Next a wilderness of rags—rags everywhere, and in every shape; and, lastly, the man and woman who were there to receive her.

' Now, darling, just make yourself as comfortable here as you cau. You shall not be kept here long. These people will be kind to you. Don't you be unkind to them. I wish I. dared, before I go, ask you for a —' Something in her eye prevented him from finishing his sentence. Had he offered to kiss her she felt that she could have killed him without com punction ; but he had not dared. Ren wick looked at her not more than a second, and then turned to the woman and spoke to her apart; and almost before Marion knew that lie was going he was gone. She stood where he had left her until she heard the grinding and rumbling of the carriage wheels on the broken pavement without —and then she sank into a chair, the only chair in the place that she could see. The other seats were camp-stools and bundles of rags. How long .she sat she could not judge ; she knew that the beldam spoke to her, calling her ' deary ;' that she spoke kindly, offering any help in her power to render. She was think ing. Must she give up? must her courage fail 1 when she heard the door open. She looked up and saw —Paul Sheridan ! She knew him for a friend. Uncle Stephen had introduced him to her only the day before. Like a flash she sprang to him, with outstretched hands, her fear all gone, joy-beams dancing in her eyes.

Presently lie sut down and told her the whole story; how he had dis covered lienwick's plot for her abduc tion ; how he had followed him to that very place on the morning of that very day; and how, after he had gone, he himself had come in, and made a new arrangement with the rag-picking pair. And he told her much more ; bold her why he had not been able to prevent the present outrage without giving the villain a warning that might have defeated their whole object.

' I knew he would do you no harm on the way here ; and I knew old Sally would have defended you.'

' Aye, that I would 1' asserted the old woman, grandly. Sheridan had not thought of preventing the old host and hostess from overhearing.

He remained with the lady an hour, until the evening had fairly set in, and then he went out aud got for her a good supper, which he brought in a basket, sufficient to give the old folks a nibble when she had eaten; and hav ing seen her comfortably seated at her homely meal, and given her a few more words of advice and assurance, he made ready to depart, as lie had other wo:k to do. The hist words he said were :

'Go with him bravely, dear lady. You will find me at the end of your journey.' She gave him a smiling response, and in a moment later he was gone.

Marion ato in silence, and when she had eaten all she desired she moved back her chair from the improvised board, and bade the old woman to help herself and husband to what was left. At first the bold am refused, but not stoutly. A second invitation was suc cessful ; and the rag-dealers made a hearty meal, ant] certainly a dainty one for them.

After that Marion sat for an hour or more, while the old woman was away in another part of the house, taking care of the rag-gathering army of urchins that had come in from their daily toil. Breakfast and supper they found there. Dinner they picked up where they could.

Another hour went by, and after that —how long she could not have told —Marion fell asleep in her chair, with her head on a pile of washed rags, while old Sally was telling her the story of how Mr Renwick, calling himself Mr Wilmot, had come and persuaded them to help him in -getting away with a lady who loved him dearly, but whose parents wished to separate them.

The next thing she knew was the feeling of a hand on her shoulder, and being awaked from a pleasant dream thereby. She looked up into the face of Jasper Renwick, rendered scarcely visible by the light of the single candle. She could see, however, that the look of triumph was shadowed by a deep and harrowing anxiety, he had'settled with Sally before arousing the sleeper. 'Come !'he said sharply. 'There's no time to lose. We must be out of this immediately.'

So preoccupied was he—so anxious and so flurried, with a mixture of nameless, shapeless dread — that he took uo note of the girl's entire wil lingness, and even eagerness, to accom pany him; nor did he observe when she turned to the old woman and took her hand and warmly thanked her for her kindness. He called upon the hostess to come out into the hall and hold a candle to light him on his way, which she did ; and thus he was en abled to pick his way down the treacherous stairs, leading his prisoner by the hand.

Outside stood the same coacli that had brought them; and fortunately, for the driver at least, there was a good moon, though slightly veiled by iieecy clouds. Marion was assisted in, finding a man on the front seat, as be fore, brought, probably, for the purpose of helping to keep her quiet in case she should seek to raise an outcry. But she had no such intent.

Slowly the horses started over the uncertain pavement, but they went swiftly enough when they had found a safe and reliable road. Renwick spoke no word. The girl by his side heard his quick, hard breathing, and she well knew how deep and harrowing were his thoughts. [To be Continued.]

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 188 ft

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