"
"Then you do know something about her, but how did you arrive at the
knowledge?"
"By the 'last dying speech and confession' of Gabriel Le Aoir,
confided to me to be used in restitution after his decease. But,
come! There is the second bell. Our mess are going in to breakfast;
join us and afterwards you and I will retire and compare notes,"
said Herbert, taking the arm of his friend as they followed the
moving crowd into the breakfast parlor.
After the morning meal was concluded the friends withdrew together
to the chamber occupied by Traverse Rocke, where they sat down for
mutual explanations.
Herbert first related to Traverse all that had occurred from the
time that the latter left the city of Mexico, including the arrival
of Craven Le Xoir at the dying bed of his father, the subsequent
death and funeral of Colonel Le Noir, and the late emigration of
Craven, who to avoid the shame of the approaching revelation, joined
a party of explorers bound for the recently discovered gold mines in
California.
"The civilized world is then rid of two villains at once," said the
uncompromising Traverse.
Herbert took from his pocket the confession of Colonel Le Noir,
which he said he was now at liberty to use as he thought proper for
the ends of justice. That certain parts of the disclosure intimately
concerned Traverse Rocke, to whom he should therefore read the
whole.
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