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Dick, having "cleaned" and "stoked" himself with tea and toast,

vouchsafed for further inforlemere's in Hampshire It's a tremendous place, so a fellow at the

works says, who's seen it; one of the show places, you know; 'a

venerable pile,' with a collection of pictures, and a faleford----"

"I releford at Wolfer House; a

little woly kind to me"

"Sensible as well as pretty," murmured Falconer He had drawn his chair

to the , and was gazing down at the crowded street rather absently

and sadly In a fortnight the girl who had brightened his life, who had

transfors into an earthly paradise for hione!

"Oh!" said Dick "That would have been the late earl's wife The present

one isn't ee! The late earl died

about eighteenabout

it while I was in the office with hi----"

"Who--old Bardsley?" asked Nell

"No, brainless one," said Dick; "the young earl, Lord Angleford Rather

a curious sort of customer, I should fancy, for nobody seeland suddenly--kind of