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"Fie! fie! Mar," said the Lady, shaking her fan at him, "the child will repeat it to him"

"The better sport if he do," said Colonel Mar, carelessly; "hethe beasts, so that they snatch his poems from him!"

Then, as Sir Amyas returned, Lady Belamour entreated her dear Countess to allow hi room, and there endeavour to entertain her The Colonel could not but follow, and the Major and Betty found theth alone with her Ladyship

"I trust you have coan

"Would to Heaven I could!" said the Major

"Good Heavens! Then she has never reached you!"

"Certainly not

"Nor her sister? Oh, surely she is with her sister!"

"No,of her Cousin, you have children of your own! I entreat of you to tell me what you have done with her"

"How should I have done anything with her? I who have been feeding all this time on the assurance that she had returned to you"

"How could a child like her do so?"

"We know she had money," said Lady Bela her eyes on the lady, "that though she escaped, on the first alarm, as far as Sedhurst, and was there seen, she had decided on returning to Bowstead and giving herself up to you Ladyship"

"Indeed? At what time was that?" exclaimed my Lady

"Some time in the afternoon of Sunday!"

"Ah! then I ed to her Majesty's card-table, and royal corievous anxiety for my poor boy She meant to return to Bowstead, did she? Ah Does not an idea strike you that old Amyas Bela a double gairl as we are madam"

"So he may seem to you and to my poor infatuated boy, but you see those crazed persons are full of strange devices and secrets, as indeed we have already experienced I see what you would say; he er, but to those who have known him ever since his h as long as he was content to remain secluded in his dark chamber, but now that I hear he has broken loose, Heaven knohat mischief he may do My dear cousin Delavie, you are the prop left to oodhim work in chains for all I know," and the tears came into her beautiful eyes