was the porter on the train on which she first came to Almaville. She
came into the section of the coach for Negroes, and she and a Negro girl
created a scene."

"Go on!" almost shouted Volrees, now thoroughly aroused.

"The reward?" timidly suggested the Negro.

"Of course you get that. Go on!" said Volrees, with increasing
impatience.

"The affair was so sad-like that I always remembered the looks of the
two women," resumed the Negro. "One night not long ago I saw the Negro
girl buy a ticket to Goldsboro, Mississippi. It came to me like a flash
that she was going to see your wife. She had the same sad look on her
face that she had the night I saw them together. I followed this girl to
Mississippi and sure enough I came upon your wife."

Volrees had now arisen and was restlessly moving about the room, his
brain in a whirl.

"Was she living with some family, or how was she situated?" he asked.

"She and her husband live----"

"Her husband!" thundered Volrees, grabbing the Negro in the collar,
fancying that he was grabbing the other husband.

"The people there say that she is married," said the Negro timidly.

"I will choke the liver out of the miscreant," said Volrees, tightening
his hold in the Negro's collar as if in practice.

"I am not the man," said the Negro, with growing determination in his
voice. Volrees was thus recalled to himself and resumed his restless
tramping.

"No, you are not the man. You are only a ---- nigger."

Grasping his hat, Volrees strode rapidly out of the room. At the door he
bawled back,

"You will get your reward."

The Negro followed Volrees at a distance and noted that he went to the
office of an exceedingly shrewd detective.

In the course of a few days the city of Almaville was shocked with the
news that a Mrs. Johnson, wife of a leading Mississippi planter had been
arrested and brought to Almaville on a charge of bigamy. The prosecutor
in the case was the Hon. H. G. Volrees, who claimed that the alleged
Mrs. Johnson was none other than Eunice Seabright, who had married him.
Mrs. Johnson denied being the former Miss Seabright, and employed able
counsel to conduct her defense.

The stir in the highest social circles of Almaville was indeed great,
and for days very little was talked of save the forthcoming
Volrees-Johnson bigamy trial.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

_A Great Day in Court._

Long before the hour set for the trial of the alleged Eunice Volrees on
the ch