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"It was in a shelf in the wainscoting, in a sort of little study at that house," said Aurelia

"A other papers?"

"Quantities of other papers"

"Of what kind?"

"Letters, and bills, and wills, and parch to pieces, and some on tiny slips of parchment"

"And you read them all?"

"I had to read them to see what they were, as well as I could make out, and sorted them and tied them up in bundles"

"Can you tell me whether they were Delavie wills?"

"I should think they were I know that the oldest of all were Latin, and I couldabout Manoriem and Carminster, and what looked like the names of some of the fields at home"

"Do you think you could show me those slips?"

"I do not suppose any one has touched thereat favour on me if you would allow Mr Belamour and myself to escort you to Delavie and show us these papers I fear it "

"Oh no, sir, I know no har

"It may be very important," he said, and she went to put on her hood

"Surely," said Mr Wayland, "the title-deeds cannot have been left there?"

"No The title-deeds to the rave's I have seen thee; but still thisthis child to search is presumption that no such document existed"

"Of course no one supposed it did," said Mr Wayland, on the defence again

Aurelia was quickly ready in her little hood and kerchief, and trireatly surprised to find how near she had been to her friends during these last few days of her captivity, and when Madge obeyed the summons to the door, the old woman absolutely smiled to see her safe, and the little terrier danced about her in such transports that she begged to take him back with her

She opened the door of the little e stood except the old bureau That, she said, had been full of letters, but all the oldest things had been within a door opening in the wainscot, which she should never have found had not Bob pushed it open in his search for rats, and then she found a tin case full of papers and parchht, than the letters She had tied theether, and easily produced them