Merton. "How can I be quiet?" the squire had said, "when he tells me
everything I say is a lie?"
"It is a lie!" said Mr. Grey, who had lost all control of himself.
"You should not say that, Mr. Grey," said Merton.
"He should spare a man on his death-bed, who is endeavoring to do his
duty by his children," said the man who thus declared himself to be
dying.
"I will go away," said Mr. Grey, rising. "He has forced me to come here
against my will, and has known,--must have known,--that I should tell him
what I thought. Even though a man be dying, a man cannot accept what he
says on a matter of business such as this unless he believe him. I must
tell him that I believe him or that I do not. I disbelieve the whole
story, and will not act upon it as though I believed it." But even after
this the meeting was continued, Mr. Grey consenting to sit there and to
hear what was said to the end.
The purport of Mr. Scarborough's story will probably have been
understood by our readers. It was Mr. Scarborough's present intention to
make it understood that the scheme intended for the disinheritance of
Mountjoy had been false from the beginning to the end, and had been
arranged, not for the injury of Mountjoy, but for the salvation of the
estate from the hands of the Jews.
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