Only Daughter Drawn Into Bold Money Scheme
A distraught May writes a secret letter to Hartrey Park near Portsmouth as her father Bratthew Hivees hopes she will marry his clerk John Gridley to fund a 4 thousand pound plan. May reveals love for another man, while tensions rise between duty and romance. The minister, veiling faults, believes Gridley a suitable match for his daughter.
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Wehbe
Letter to Hartrey Park fuels a village plot
May seeks a poor half-wit Amos to deliver a letter to Mr Hartrey at Hartrey Park. John Gridley shadows her plan as Amos agrees to act, but a shadowy rider and a brutal attack threaten the mission and May’s fragile hope. Amos defends the letter with his life as danger closes in on the Portsmouth road.
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John Gridley
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Hartrey Park
Hartrey
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Merosa
May
Thugsy
Anos
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Portsmouth
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Desperate Letters Drive Maltster's Clerk to Scheme
In early dawn at a Portsmouth inn, John Gridley, pale and bloodied, confronts a severed past as he reads May Rivers's urgent plea for funds. He plots to use the lovers’ letter to extract May from Ernest Hartrey, while haunted by the earlier murder of Amos and the threat of justice. Gridley moves toward Hartrey Park to confront his rival with a dangerous plan.
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Portsmouth
John Gridley
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May
Ernest
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Trimph
Hartrey heir defies baronet in doomed marriage clash
Ernest Hartrey opposes Sir Harold Hartrey's plan to wed him to the Porchester marquis's daughter. He declares May Rivers as his intended wife, risking the family fortune and title. A letter from May to Ernest prompts careful plotting as John Gridley schemes to secure funds and a public rendezvous unfolds.
Dreadful deed on roadside as assailant flees far away
An assailant silences a victim, retrieves a letter from clothing, pockets it, drags the body to a deep roadside ditch by the Portsmouth road, and then escapes without looking back, fleeing for miles from the scene in a violent act.
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Portsmouth
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