Once more, good-by,
FLORENCE MEREDITH."
CHAPTER XVIII.
HOME AGAIN.
Great were the rejoicings both in Boston and Allington over the return
of the travelers, and great the surprise of all, when it was known that
Bessie had come back an heiress to no mean fortune. But just who the
great uncle was from whom her money had come to her, none, except Grey's
father and Mr. Sanford ever knew, and if they had, few would have
remembered the peddler of more than forty years ago whose disappearance
had caused no remark, and awakened no suspicion. Could Bessie have had
her way she would have told the story fearlessly and moved the bones of
her kinsman to another resting-place, but Grey and Mr. Sanford overruled
her, both for Hannah's sake and for the sake of Grey's father, who could
not have borne the talk it would have created.
Mr. Jerrold had never been the same since that night when he heard his
father's confession, and he was fast growing into a morbid, misanthropic
man, whom his wife, not without reason, feared would one day be crazy.
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