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"If we go by perils dared, the uncle is the true knight-errant," said she to her father "I wonder which our child truly loves the best!"

"Betty!" said her father, scandalised

"Ay, I know, Sir A boy, but what a boy he is! And she has barely spoken with him or seen him, whereas Mr Belamour has been kind to her for a whole twelvemonth I knohat I should do if I were in her place I would declare that I intended to be married to the uncle, and would keep it!"

"He would think it base to put the question"

"He would; but indeed, dear sir, I think it would be but right and due to the dear child herself that she should have here free choice, and not be bound for ever by a deception! Yes, I know the poor boy's despair would be dreadful, but it would be better for the at the door, you cruel woman"

The bedroom opened into the parlour the party had hired, so that both could co their watch upon the sleeper The poor young man looked pale, shocked, and sorrowful "Well," said he, after having read in their looks that there was no change, "he knows the worst" Then on a further token of interrogation, "It h the whole suite of rooms, and in the closet at the end, with all the doors open, she was having an altercation with Mar He was insisting on knohat she had done with"--(he signed towards the other roo him with faithlessness They were deaf to an approach, till Mr Wayland, in a loud voice, ordered'it was no scene for a son'"

"I trust it will not end in a challenge?" asked the Major, gravely

"No,e my superior officer"

"But your uncle?" said Betty,forgotten

"I should have told you We had notlike a dog that had lost hisJu him into that house (some day I will pull every brick of it down), so he watched till by and by he saw a coach come out with all the s closed, and as hison the paveht of it till he had tracked it right across the City to a house with iron-barred s inside a high wall There it went in, and he could not follow, but he asked the people what place it was, and though they jeered at him, he made out that it was as we feared Nay, do not be alarmed, sister, he will soon be with us My poor father shut me out, and I know not what passed with er to return to my dearest, he came out and told me that he had found out that one himself to liberate him He is himself a justice of the peace, and he will call for Dr Sandys by the way, that there one in the coach-and-four, with Juhted"