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"Ah! that gunpowder trick of Mr Arden's--I always hated it!" exclairowled the old soldier "Well, if ever there'sthe children, Harriet is always at the bottom of it I hope Mr Belamour made her confess if she had a hand in it"

"I believe he did," said Sir Amyas

"Just like her to set the match to the train and then run away," said the Major

"Still, sir," said Betty, her worieved enough that Harriet should have left Aurelia to face the consequences of the act she instigated, I , if he will allowto understand the truth"

"That is what my uncle tells me," said the baronet "He declares that if I had attended to his stipulations, restrained my fervour, or kept my distance, there would have been neither suspicion nor alarm As if I had not restrained myself!"

"Ay, I dare say," said the Major, a little a creature in the world, his oife, too, on the next chair to hi--for he was hardly ive hiue His own man--a respectable elderly servant who that his honour would sit up no longer, as he had been travelling since six in the , and was quite worn out Indeed, so it proved; for when the Major and Betty not only promised to come with him on the search the next day, but bade hiht, the poor lad, all unused to kindness, fairly burst into tears, which all his dawning manhood could not restrain