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"Precisely," the lawyer --I think that last remittance we sent to you could be stopped I have no doubt you will be glad of a little ready money," he added, with a confident smile

"Thanks, I don't think I need any just at present," was the a answer "We'll talk about financial affairs a little later on"

Mr Mangan metaphorically pinched hi his school days, had received a great many visits from him at different times, and could not remember one in which the question of finance had been dismissed in so casual a manner

"I trust," he observed chiefly for the sake of saying so down here for a time now?"

"I have finished with Africa, if that is what youdown here, well, that depends a little upon what you have to tell me"

The lawyer nodded

"I think," he said, "that you er Unthank Nothing has ever been heard of hiland"

"His--body has not been found?"

"Nor any trace of it"

There was a brief silence The lawyer looked hard at Doain at the lawyer

"And Lady Doth

"Her ladyship's condition is, I believe, unchanged," was the souarded reply

"If the circumstances are favourable," Dominey continued, after another moment's pause, "I think it very likely that I may decide to settle down at Dominey Hall"

The lawyer appeared doubtful

"I am afraid," he said, "you will be very disappointed in the condition of the estate, Sir Everard As I have repeatedly told you in our correspondence, the rent roll, after deducting your settlement upon Lady Does, and we have had to make up the difference and send you your allowance out of the proceeds of the outlying timber"

"That is a pity," Doht, perhaps, to have taken you more into my confidence By the by," he added, "when--er--about when did you receive an repeated "We have not had the privilege of hearing from you, Sir Everard, for over four years The only intimation we had that our payly prompt debit of the South African bank"