It was a race and a struggle of two gallant parties, and a short description of it will be given; but as no new incidents happened for six days we shall preserve the chronological order of events, and now relate a daring project which was revived in that interval.
Monckton and Bartley were now enemies.

Sin had united, crime and remorse had disunited them.

Monckton registered a vow of future vengeance upon his late associate, but in the meantime, taking a survey of the present circumstances, he fell back upon a dark project he had conceived years ago on the very day when he was arrested for theft in Bartley's office.
Perhaps our readers, their memory disturbed by such a number of various matters as we have since presented to them, may have forgotten that project, but what is about to follow will tend to revive their recollection.

Monckton then wired to Mrs.Braham's lawyer demanding an immediate interview with that lady; he specified the hour.
The lawyer went to her directly, the matter being delicate.

He found her in great distress, and before he could open his communication she told him her trouble.