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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 20, 1910
Page
4
A jumble of phrases about a medicine and healing people fills pages with garbled text. The writer references a Veifer and a Gure with scattered names and places, but the overall sense remains unclear and fragmented.
John Seaton weighs a plan to wed Margaret Leicester and settle large incomes. He would leave Margaret all her late husband’s estate minus 500 a year for her, devote most of her fortune to Jack, and provide ten thousand pounds to Nannie while supporting Roger’s legal studies. He pursues dignity and mercy as he decides.
Seaton contemplates Margaret Leicester's needs before proposing marriage while Wilcox's stock gambles threaten ruin. The solicitor Seaton suspects Wilcox of diverting funds, having exploited him in earlier deals, as Wilcox faces ruin if his salary from Seaton collapses.
In a tense London study, Wilcox faces a drunken, desperate Pascoe pressing for a 250 pound quarterly share from the lawyer’s earnings and assets. Pascoe threatens to strike out on his own while Wilcox reveals dire financial trouble and warns against ruin.
In a tense confrontation in an office, Pascoe confronts Richard Wilcox accusing him of breaking trust and seeking a larger share. Wilcox urges calm, hints at a forthcoming scheme, and tries to avert a quarrel as Pascoe rages and menaces, threatening to raise the dead.
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