"I had no thought of him then, but I learned through Richard Hobson, whom I met in London at that time, of the will which had been made in my husband's favor, but which he told me had been destroyed by Hugh Mainwaring.

He said nothing of the clause forbidding that any of the property should pass to me, and I immediately sailed for America in search of Hugh Mainwaring, believing that, with my knowledge of the will, I, as his brother's widow, could get some hold upon him by which I could compel him either to share the property with me or to marry me." "Then you were not married to Hugh Mainwaring in England, as you testified at the inquest ?" "No," she replied, passionately; "I was never married to him.

I have made many men my dupes and slaves, but he was the one man who made a dupe of me, and I hating him all the time!" "And Walter!" he exclaimed, "you stated that he was the son of Hugh Mainwaring." "He is Hugh Mainwaring's son and mine," she answered, with bitter emphasis; "that was another of my schemes which failed.

I found I had little hold upon Hugh Mainwaring, while he had the same power over me as in the days before I had learned to despise him.

When Walter was born, I hoped he would then fulfil his promises of marriage; but instead, he would have turned me adrift had I not threatened that I would then disclose everything which I knew concerning the will.