Book the Second, a clearance of all scores.

Chapter 1 Blind Peter

The favorite gallows having lost in the race with Richard Marwood, there is very little

more interest felt in Slauperton about poor daredevil Dick's fate.

It was known that he was in the county lunatic asylum, a prisoner for life, or as it is

expressed by persons learned in legal matters during the pleasure of the sovereign.

It was known that his poor mother had taken up her boat near the asylum, and that it intervals

she was allowed the melancholy pleasure of seeing the wreck of her once light-hearted

boy.

Mrs. Marwood was now a very rich woman, in heritris of the whole of her poor murdered brothers

wealth.

For Mr. Monahue Harding's will had been found to bequeath the whole of his immense fortune

to his only sister.

She spent little, however, and what she did expend was chiefly devoted to works of charity,

but even her benevolence was limited, and she did little more for the poor than she had

done before from her own small income.

The wealth of the East Indian remained accumulating in the hands of her bankers.

Mrs. Marwood was therefore very rich, and Slauperton accordingly set her down as a

adviser.

So the nine days one deride out, and the murder of Mr. Harding was forgotten.

The sunshine on the factory chimneys of Slauperton grew warmer every day.

Every day the hands, appertaining to the factories, felt more and more the necessity of frequent

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