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When the Board was over, he also went down to the Beargarden Perhaps, with reference to the Board, the feeling which hurt hi money which he would never have had to spend had there been no Board He had been twitted with this at the Board- to the ue, and Montague, which money was now supposed to have beenhad come to him after a loose fashion, and he knew that if called upon for an account, he could hardly ible to all parties Nevertheless he spent e he joined his table with Nidderdale's, at the young lord's instigation 'Whatlord

'I didn't e, but I think that as we call ourselves Directors we ought to know soht I don't know, you know I'll tell you what I've been thinking I can't make out why the mischief they made me a Director'

'Because you're a lord,' said Paul bluntly

'I suppose there's soood can I do the about business Of course I'o there unless they want me to vote Everybody knows that I'm hard up I can't understand it The Governor said that I was to do it, and so I've done it'

'They say, you know,--there's sohter'

'But if there is, what has that to do with a railway in the city? And why should Carbury be there? And, heaven and earth, why should old Grendall be a Director? I'm impecunious; but if you were to pink out the two ard toCarbury I've been thinking a good deal about it, and I can'tabout it too,' said Paul

'I suppose old Melht?' asked Nidderdale This was a question which Montague found it difficult to answer How could he be justified in whispering suspicions to the man as known to be at any rate one of the competitors for Marie Melmotte's hand? 'You can speak out tohis head