Never Forgotten (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH. CASE AGAINST MAJOR CARTER. While the hubbub goes on, and people are stopping each other in streets and clubs, asking, "I say, what's this business about Carter?" we may look back some weeks to that stormy night at Bangor, when young Doctor Jones was away, and Miss Manuel, like an avenging angel, sitting before the old man, who was crouching in his chair. She literally wrung the whole story from him in bits and patches. First, he recollected Major Carter, with his wife, coming to the place, and had seen them walking about very often. She, he had noticed, was so quiet and white, and always had her timid eye fixed on the major, as if expecting something. Her voice was gentle, and she feared her husband. VOL. III. T The major very often, said the old man, came into the shop, and talked, and talked pleasantly too, but not so much to him. It was delightful to listen to him; he knew the world so well. He was above them all in this place--miles above them. The old man's sou had just then come home, and had begun to help in the business; and the major fancied him a good deal more than his father. His reverence for the major far exceeded that of the old man's. "He can do anything, that man," he often said to his father. "He could be prime minister. He can turn you and me round his finger. We are mere babies to him." As indeed they were. And with Dr. Watkyn, Major Carter sometimes took a walk, though in a private direction, for he was careful, and saving of his dignity. And young Dr. Watkyn was heard to say often, that he would to Heaven that man could stay for years in the place. His words were like gold. Presently, Mrs. Carter, always ailing, began to become ill regularly, and the major became changed into the most devoted of nurses. "I was ...