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XXXVI.   Gurney & Malcomson's XXXVII.   Victoria Street XXXVIII.   The Scarborough Correspondence XXXIX.   How the Letters Were Received XL.   Visitors at Tretton XLI.   Mountjoy Scarborough Goes to Buston XLII.   Captain Vignolles Entertains His Friends XLIII.   Mr. Prosper is Visited by His Lawyers XLIV.   Mr. Prosper's Troubles XLV.   A Determined Young Lady XLVI.   M. Grascour XLVII.   Florence Bids Farewell to Her Lovers XLVIII.   Mr. Prosper Changes His Mind XLIX.   Captain Vignolles Gets His Money L.   The Last of Miss Thoroughbung LI.   Mr. Prosper is Taken Ill LII.   Mr. Barry Again LIII.   The Beginning of the Last Plot LIV.   Rummelsburg LV.   Mr. Grey's Remorse LVI.   Scarborough's Revenge LVII.   Mr. Prosper Shows His Good Nature LVIII.   Mr. Scarborough's Death LIX.   Joe Thoroughbung's Wedding LX.   Mr. Scarborough is Buried LXI.   Harry Annesley is Accepted LXII.   The Last of Mr. Grey LXIII.   The Last of Augustus Scarborough LXIV.   The Last of Florence Mountjoy

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PART I.

 

CHAPTER I.

MR. SCARBOROUGH.

 

It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book—though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all by those who look to incidents for their interest in a tale—are in this way only preliminary.

The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborough declared that his well-known eldest son was not legitimate. Mr. Scarborough himself had not been well known in early life. He had been the only son of a squire in Staffordshire over whose grounds a town had been built and pottery-works established. In this way a property which had not originally been extensive had been greatly increased in value, and Mr. Scarborough, when he came into possession, had found himself to be a rich man. He had then gone abroad, and had there married an English lady. After the lapse of some years he had returned to Tretton Park, as his place was named, and there had