ing it had driven his
coach and horses through all the laws, which were to Mr. Grey as Holy
Writ; and, in thus driving his coach and horses, he had forced Mr. Grey
to sit upon the box and hold the reins. Mr. Grey had thought himself to
be a clever man,--at least a well-instructed man; but Mr. Scarborough had
turned him round his finger, this way and that way, just as he had
pleased.

Mr. Grey when, in his rage, he had given the lie to Mr. Scarborough had,
no doubt, spoken as he had believed at that moment. To him the new
story must have sounded like a lie, as he had been driven to accept the
veritable lie as real truth. He had looked into all the circumstances of
the marriage at Nice, and had accepted it. He had sent his partner over,
and had picked up many incidental confirmations. That there had been a
marriage at Nice between Mr. Scarborough and the mother of Augustus was
certain. He had traced back Mr. Scarborough's movements before the
marriage, and could not learn where the lady had joined him who
afterward became his wife; but it had become manifest to him that she
had travelled with him, bearing his name. But in Vienna Mr. Barry had
learned that Mr. Scarborough had called the lady by her maiden name. He
might have learned that he had done so very often at other places; but
it had all been done in preparation for the plot in hand,--as had scores
of other little tricks which have not cropped up to the surface in this
narrative.

Mr. Scarborough's whole life had been passed in arranging tricks for the
defeat of the law; and it had been his great glory so to arrange them as
to make it impossible that the law should touch him. Mountjoy had
declared that he had been defrauded. The creditors swore, with many
oaths, that they had been horribly cheated by this man. Augustus, no
doubt, would so swear very loudly. No man could swear more loudly
than did Mr. Grey as he left the squire's chamber after this last
revelation. But there was no one who could punish him. The money-lenders
had no writing under his hand. Had Mountjoy been born without a
marriage-ceremony it would have been very wicked, but the vengeance of
the law would not have reached him. If you deceive your attorney with
false facts he cannot bring you before the magistrates. Augustus had
been the most injured of all; but a son, though he may bring an action
against his father for bigamy, cannot summon him before any tribunal
because he has married his mother