And, besides, I have raison to know
that he will be arrested this very night for attempting to poison his
brother. I am a humble young man, Miss Riddle, but I am afeard that if
you marry him you will stand but a bad chance for happiness."
"She was again silent, but, after a pause, she said--
"Shawn, do you want money?"
"I thank you, Miss Riddle," he replied, "I don't want money: all I want
is, that you will not be desaved by one of the most damnable villains on
the face of the earth."
There was an earnestness and force of truth in what the generous young
tory said that could not be mistaken. He arose, and was about to take
his leave, when he said,--
"Miss Riddle, I understand he is about to be married to you to-morrow.
Should he become your husband, he is safe from my hand--and that on your
account; but as it may not yet be too late to spake, I warn you
against his hypocrisy and villany--against the man who destroyed Grace
Davoren--who would have killed Miss Goodwin with his Evil Eye, in order
to get back the property which his uncle left her, and who would have
poisoned his own brother out of his way bekase his mother told him she
had changed her mind in leaving it to him (Woodward), and came to the
resolution of leaving it to his brother, and that was the raison why he
attempted to poison him.
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