Volume V Part 51 (1/2)
”She has changed her nas at the 'Haymarket'”
”I knoho she is now I am sorry you have told me”
”I have no doubt you will keepto find out where she lives; for that is the principal thing”
He left , and I pitied him, but at the same time I was sorry that he had made me the depositary of his secret A few hours after I called on Madame Binetti, and she told me the histories of all the artistes in London When she came to the Calori she told me that she had had several lovers out of whoreat deal, but at present she had no lover, unless it were the violinist Giardini, hom she was in love in earnest
”Where does she come from?”
”From Vicenza”
”Is she ht no more of this wretched business, but three or four days later I had a letter fro's Bench Prison It was from Constantini
The poor wretch said I was the only friend he had in London, and that he hoped I would coive hiht it my duty to accede to his request, and I went to the prison, where I found the poor lish attorney, who spoke a little bad Italian, and was known to me
Constantini had been arrested the day before on account of several bills drawn by his hich had not been taken up By these bills she appeared in debt to the aot the five bills, and he was trying to ements with the husband
I saw at once that the whole thing was a scandalous swindle, for Madaed the attorney to leave me alone with the prisoner, as I wanted to have some private conversation with him
”They have arrested me for my wife's debts,” said he, ”and they tell me I must pay them because I am her husband”
”It's a trick your wife has played on you; she must have found out you were in London”
”She sawyour project into execution?”
”I , but hoas I to know that she had debts?”
”Nor has she any debts; these bills are shams They must have been ante-dated, for they were really executed yesterday It's a bad business, and she may have to pay dearly for it”
”But in the meanwhile I am in prison”
”Never ain tory, and I made up my mind to take up the poor man's cause I went to Bosanquet, who told me that the device was a very common one in London, but that people had found out the way to defeat it Finally, he said that if the prisoner interested me he would put the case into the hands of a barrister ould extricate him from his difficulty, and make the wife and the lover, who had probably helped her, repent of their day's work I begged hiuarantee all expenses
”That's enough,” said he; ”don't trouble yourself any more about it”
Same days after Mr Bosanquet caland as well, according to what the barrister who had charge of the case told him
”Impossible!”
”Not at all The lover of his wife, foreseeing the storot round the fellow, and e”