Show him nm alir dag seme in mr s library air O orge sala ewt known and idiot of living london journalists the folio hi kelii acm nt 0 11 bion anad ly kichard bigott in ins pre ance on saturday lettera were manly relied on in nl if nations against MI x which have for BO long engaged the of the the narrative taken the eunit of a letter to the editor lh london lil atif anil w tn in that jurnal un mr in Haton liiv an p wed to lie ahn 0 the daily anil firmly believing as I 1 d in alie und necessity 0 resting ona clear the seven 1 always dj my amt tu keep alie last alny of iha week a a whole holiday it dues not 10 matter how ion mi long as you abstain brorn borki look naion iown ti t i suiting on a ahina anit t rMOn cile ilia old volumes in ouch ly als us BO tunny forma 0 amii x but the biot t 0 all is er til H rrt il haril worker to fall into a liin bir in your easy chair gaail luncheon the into the anns of ollowa eliat the machine ix bovins the week liari rundown and your mlee is natural and descried I 1 aas myself id ono of the waya just hinted at in my rooms in vii doritt street last litween 1 and 2 i iu when a knirk camo at my door and 1 waa a letter which had been in hot haade by a ber yant v ho waa to wait for an answer alie was of the briefest ios kind and wai froin iny old friend and apar mr whose hoila ia at 24 grosvenor gardens within pistol shut of my hat and the note ran lanm caa you leave everything ami come here at once mot mo t important ll 11 L I 1 told the nerv int I 1 would be ill ardeli within a quarter of an hour andere that time had expired 1 ania ushered aiuto a large library on the ground ficor I 1 found tho senior for northampton cigarette but with an and of animation in his normally lie wai not alone unwonted En wonted in a roomy a few paces from sir laboch erpa writing table there wm burly individual of middle aire lie looked full sixty al anve bean kivee to under artand ilia hid age doin doi n not exceed fifty five but aspect wai by liis baldness bAld which revealed a cry banfe amount of oval os frontia fringed by grey locks atie leial biad an eyeglass screwed into one STO and lie was asiu this optical aid alTi ost assiduously tor he was korink over a ropy of that morn sned 0 hie 1 imet going right down one column and apparently up abea takfur column after column in succession then li arkin back ai though he had omitted soroa choice and then le onmin the sequence of liia lecture ever and anon tappi in that ovoid frontal bone of hia iu to evoke ino moriea of the pit with a little silver pencil case when he was not tapping his cranium with the encil case he put it liiri lips as he were chewing the cud of and bitter fanciest fanci esi and then ho twiddle the case t tween his finferd fin gerd I 1 noted the of his head and abu first of one foot and tuen tho other I 1 coteil his ponies hat shabby genteel attire and in observed that the lian 1 which liall the copy 0 the bunei wis ceased to I 1 took careful tok of all these peculiarities aliey me to recognize alie individual us responding pro bisely ci sely ill what I 1 had read about him and witti B I 1 had scan in some evening aper thus when sir n his mont courteous manner and his bland tift tone baid allow me to introduce you to a of whom vou mu it have lie ard a great deal mr I 1 replied there u notion fur naming diiro I 1 know him well thais air the individual in the ca pacios lau deuil Kaled from alm tinges an acknowledgment or my recognition but if anything could be conducive t putting cum plemely at hta eaas H who from boine causa ir another an oiher was troubled in his mind it would have been the dulcet voice i it which sir labouchere lAbouch era con tinned the ia that sir has luuie hero finite to niale a full confession I 1 told him that I 1 mould listen to nothing that he had to say save in the sance of a witti eMR janil that oa livo cloth by I 1 thought that yon would not mind comi rii here aej listening to what mr bigott lias t co which will he taken down word by word from liia dictation in writing it has been my lot during a lone and diversified career to have to libben to a large number of very queer bt from very queer people and by dint of experience you reichi at bahta abaga or stoicism when little it anything that la imparted t you excites surprise thui if mr had told mo that mr to avow that he had the philosophers stone or found a four leaved bhain rock aliat lie had formulated a uni veral or that alie murderer of kliza I 1 should have been fally prepared to hoar what ho had to say without in adv exhibitions of astonishment it waa onethia on ethin however IM told eliat mr i bigott intended to confess and quite anellier to got alie confession froin Lis lipa As in the cise of the gentleman gentl euan at tyburn alio oft gilted lilted the halter oft traversed the cart and boiten took leave but seemed loath to depart BO it did appear that mr ligou although he bad screwed hk courage to abo place of s dying that bo was gorog to confess manifested considerable sid erable in orally owning up conscience wa were in assuming had gnawed tu an extent to make him milling to relieve hla from a dreadful burden but conscience to all eirving ei had to gnaw a little longer and a little more sharply ere lie gave lo igue 80 we let him be for about ten mi nates mr labouchere Labouch erA kindled another cigarette I 1 lighted a cigar and excuse the vulgarity of alia phrase continued to take stock at the man in thi easy chair still poring over ta e 1 tines detill tapping giroo to time lla forehead with abo pencil case and still wriggling liral one foot and then alia other perhaps conscience waa gnawing like gout in liis toed at length lie stood up and caico arward into lie light by the side of ur Labouch erea writing table it kas very niile 0 course to stare nt laira but I 1 did ami that irist autly lie iliin not change color he jid not blench but ft lieu at length iut of the of ilia heart no mouth spate it vaa in a 0 w half musing tone moro at first is though he were talking to hen to any auditors by degreed deg reea louever ills voice his diction liioi o fluent it was rarely cec ideary to reconstruct a phrase ind tam confession which y gunj ata way into the possession of mr alii for bf ori the boiu from bej ining to end wag bally ahti composition da dellaa an ahe of mr t n only that in eliw place I 1 nay in eliat d that lie hail forged dig tera alleged to have been written by sir and liu minutely de the manner in which lie anil be alone had tho tor in question it was to mind aa frank free and full a eon my BB that r the ccora frederick manning who after re denying that he hl hail anything to do with the murder of k oconnor UC onnor at length ia anita an elnis ive of re 1 I netar likel liun so 1 aln fobel aln bit a clidel whether the man with the halil head and the in aliu library at was the truth or adother batch 0 infernal lien it is not ine lellin time will show or U will tin dont whether hid ninde to na litel saturday had veracious or but to my innel he lo 10 ts lai U aud bur faub 0 o preg anre waa put upon hain no leiu Jine ican akad linn nicil lie und lj the benl enl ol 01 a I 1 hooili hoi ili leave thought amazing had I 1 not had occasion to hear ciany inore more As a rule ft lien a witness of 11 certain clasa in U lipa he breathes h ml dud you inay leave obB ered that lie ia apt to break out in and to mop hi forehead with a into a i he liaa a hut in hm daod it iri pretty eimire that lie bin thac benior the rown or carpis the land while lie ii lying and of courso I 1 ilo not ignore the hin ciare laiful liar fth learnt inn knows it thoroughly and aho poura out hia re aon anre Itic hanl manner did not in any way ra eincle that of tha ordinary false not he and coherent nor lie re to fornery fraud deception and misrepresentation hit lie deem oven omo nth ap pro achini autive shame his lilola were plainly owned but ie appeared to treat them more as incidental ci weaknesses than as extraordinary act i of wickedness when ha hail come to the end 0 liia statement mr left the library for few ini initha to a little refreshment it kraal relief to me that bigott did not an tiling t me hen we wore left boether to ether there came ort me a baua vaua dread eliat ha might confess ins complicity with the itye house ilot or that lie might admit that ha li id h the executioner of KUK charlea I 1 the situa liun nag rather the aine have been tided over unfortunately I 1 never lea rotto fille it would leavo been nide to read a book and to do BO have my rny tilea off sir and 1 ilver took them we did kt into conver Bf tion but our wai wa i curt and trite lie remarked first taking ap that BO often conned times thit atie vere inconveniently laree this beina H self evident proportion met no from me but on iiii proceeding to bay 1 in quite a friendly manner that I must have found the afternoons interview rather work I 1 replied that on ellirt contrary BO far as I 1 WIM concerned I 1 had found it equally um and in thou the frugal air labouchere comin luck eiith hid mouthful e bent to business again the whole of e gionini with the declaration eliat he had nude it uninvited and without any pecuniary conderi tion read over to him line by line and word by word lie auada no correction or alteration the confession covered several cheeta of paper and to laili bhelt ha affixed hia initials finally at tha bottom of the completed document lie banned binned tiia name I 1 aruta rny haine ai a sly memory i ai yet I 1 hope and I 1 think tatt t conrd repeat at c ill abia rould M ion from beginning to end and recalling iu bill and ite particulars now it bama ui to afar the of truth if it be re id the pullulate that the inan who mada the conidi diun as a paced und nn scrupulous crup ulous ragnal neely and who vaneil by the perpetual want of pence became incited to alint which was to him the baay reaboun n of turnery and perjury in order to fill liia purse when he had pineil hia he bade tare atell remarking remar kinn that lio had butterfly ButTer fl much especially froni during his before the ia haid that hii appearance there had lien alie first thai he had ever mailo in a vitnest bot whether lie ft ill leventall even tall make another appearance ia another box the ledge of which will fw with I 1 do not know aa a matter of courtay court My batteer bot teer aa lie cautiously crept froia tha library I 1 wished him boll out of it an aspiration pi ration which was cordially by air he and 1 ex chant ted but very few worda after thin remarkable biad relieved busot his presence bichard pigott came to governor gardens unsolicited and where ho will nest iun certain for myself I 1 only devoutly hope eliat lie will not make an p pe urance rome morning in victora street and insist upon that lie was privy to the nation of president lincoln ami eliat lie wan the author of ali lettera of junium Juni ui 1 I aro sir your obedient servant Aliu SALI |