tate of health there would be no company to entertain him; that there was only a maiden sister of his father's staying in the house, and that he intended to take down into

a good deal in this which was not agreeable. Miss Scarborough was sister to Mrs. Mountjoy as well as to the squire, and had been one of the family party most anxious to assure the marriage of Florence and the captain. The late General Mountjoy had been supposed to be a great man in his way, but had died before Tretton had become as valuable as it was now. Hence the eldest son had been christen

e, whom he found lying on a couch in a small dressing-room, while his sister, who had been reading to him, was by his side. After the usual greetings Harry made some awkward apology as to his intrusion at the

time first, we all ho

hoping? I have a couple of diseases, either of which is enough to kill a horse." Then he mentioned his special

set of subject

mile and shake his head. "There has been such a complication of romances th

do talk abo

tus declares that you are especi

why I should b

to either man, woman, or beast, I do not know why any should

likely to d

interest me the least in the world. Were he to turn up here it would be a trouble; and yet they e

your son," said

to his birth, and so I think I showed pretty plainly. But nothing could stop him in his course, and therefore I told the truth, that's all.

e into the room still dressed in his shooting

I sa

he say to you

le that he should be asked to pay for finding him, seeing that the

bout rig

may be that it would be expected that he

usand a year could be paid to keep Mountjoy ou

e acting wit

don't say that my father is judicious in his brazen-faced opposition to all inquiry. He should pretend to be a little anxious-as I do. Not that there would be any use now in pretending to keep

Scarborough said a good deal about her brother, and declared him to be much better.

ne has to pay for two days of Sir

ter?" said the g

ds; but no one will begrudge it if he do

e, that we have had the b

s the most wonderful thing that he had ever met in his experience. In spite of the fact that Mr. Scarborough's body was one mass of cuts and bruises and faulty places, and that nothing would keep him going except the wearing of machinery which he was unwilling to wear, yet the facilities for mu

ble and some expense, a very good head of game might be got up at Tretton. "I suppose it wouldn't cost much?" s

one for three or four hundred a year. I should like to calculate how many

atter?" asked M

is whole income to doctors if he likes it; but one gets into a manner of speaking abo

in that wa

ed than he is. Only reflect what it was that he was disposed

d my tongue about it,

ice would be so affronted that you would feel yourself compelled to discuss the injury done to you with all your intimate friends. But with yo

alks," said Harry

timus Jones. "Upon my word I

ing of justice,

ur tongues about it; at any rate till

xpenses are very small. Yet he tells me that he has the greatest difficulty in raising a thousand pounds, and positively refuses in his present difficulties to add above five hundred a year to my former allowance. No father who had thoroughly done his duty by his son, could speak in a more fixed and austere manner. And yet he knows that every shilling will be mine as soon as he goes." The servant who was waiting upon them had been in and out of the room while this was said, and must have heard much of

u go to bed?" Miss Scarborough said

will send to say t

sh it, most

Harry Annesley, for the matter of that, or Mr. Grey, or the inspector of police. Any one whom he could shock, or pretend

echanics have it all their own way. If they were to come and tell me that they intended to put up a wind-mill in my bedroom to-morrow morning, I could only take off my hat to them. When a man offers you five per cent. where you've only had four, he is instantly your lord and master. It doesn't signify how vulgar h

rborough," said Jones, as soo

e with him, and he

now any fellow that I can get along better with than Scarborough. I

n he ought to h

t's only matter of report now, and the creditors, no doubt, do believe that when old Scarborough goes off the hooks they will be able to walk in and take possession. He has got to make the wo

r. But Augustus Scarborough did not return, and soon after ten o'clock, when Harry Annesley could smoke no mo