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As may have been gathered, Mr Falcon's actions in first watching the movements of Harry Goodall and of Miss Chain at the Crystal Palace, and then of going to Wedwell to see Doctor Peters, were not so much actuated by a desire to give the former a distaste for ballooning, as to keep them away from Wedwell Hall, where the financier had been manœuvring to entrap Squire Dove, and at the same time to lay siege to the affections of his daughter. This kind of premeditated conduct was not in accordance with the terms of Mr Falcon's mission, undertaken by him before he left Sydney -- quite the reverse, indeed.
And whether the financier was irritated by the rising popularity of the amateur aeronaut at the Crystal Palace, and retaliated by advancing himself where Harry Goodall declined to step in, or whether Falcon was prompted by a preconceived idea of trying to get a large slice of the squire's capital and entire possession of his daughter, the reader will be fully competent to judge.