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Either to spite hiarded as utterly unworthy of trust, Mr Growther re for Haldane to have made up a bundle of all the valuables in the house, and have escaped The younglike vulgar theft never entered histhe part of a cos in his present experience which he could not understand

Finally, to the irowled hi touches, and betook hiain The cat watched his departure with philosophic coht chiefly of herself during the intervieith the stranger, froreeable attention without giving anything in return; and, now that it was over, she coret

"Hullo! you're here yet, eh!" said Mr Growther, entering the gate

"Can you naood reason why I should not be here?" asked Haldane, somewhat nettled

"No, but I could plenty of bad reasons"

"Keep the his work

"You talk as if you was an honestinto the house

Sitting down in his stout oak chair to rest hies that Haldane had wrought At last he commenced: "Now, Jere! I hope you can see that dirt and confusion are your nateral ele till a boy just out of jail came to show you what it was to live like a decent hus oin' to sleep to-night? That's none o' your business Yes, 'tis hty careful to knohere I' hear froht in your good bed with this young chap sittin' on a curb-stun in the rain; but I be hanged if you shall be It's beginnin' to rain now--it's goin' to be a ht--mean as yourself--a cold, oncoht as makes these poor homeless devils feel that since they are half under water they ether P'raps they do it so a warh! And it's we respectable, coes half the time