than Mr. Macey attributed to them; for the pale thin figure of Silas Marner was suddenly seen standing

Macey, sitting a long way off the ghost, might be supposed to have felt an argumentative triumph, which would tend to neutralize his share of the general alarm. Had he not always said that when Silas Marner was in that strange trance of his, his soul went loose from his body? Here was the demonstration: nevertheless, on the whole, he would have bee

nciliatory tone, "what's lacking

n robbed! I want the constable-and the Jus

ndlord, the idea of a ghost subsiding; "he

t conveniently near Marner's standing-pl

mind," said Jem, rather sullenly. "He's been robbed, and mu

urning and fixing his stran

me?" said Jem, trembling a little, and sei

ising his voice to a cry, "give it me back-and I won't meddle with you. I won't set

ly. "I'll pitch this can at your eye i

ou've got any information to lay, speak it out sensible, and show as you're in your right mind, if you expect an

with himself and the occasion. "Let's have no more staring and screaming, else we'll have you

voices at once, well pleased that the realit

of the fire. The weaver, too feeble to have any distinct purpose beyond that of getting help to recover his money, submitted unresistingly. The transient fea

's this you've got to say-as y

Jem Rodney, hastily. "What could I ha' done with his money?

ear what he's got to say," said the

ent questioning as the mysterious cha

nd voices which were his nearest promise of help, had doubtless its influence on Marner, in spite of his passionate preoccupation with his loss. Our consciousness rar

but because, as Mr. Macey observed, "Folks as had the devil to back 'em were not likely to be so mushed" as poor Silas was. Rather, from the strange fact that the robber had left no traces, and had happened to know the nick of time, utterly incalculable by mortal agents, when Silas would go away from home without locking his door, the more probable conclusio

t of a reckoning against Jem for the matter of a hare or so, if anybody was bound to keep their eyes staring open, and niver to wink; but Jem's

at isn't the law. There must be folks to swear again' a man before he c

f compunction as new and strange to him as everything else within the last hour, he started from his chai

my house oftener than anybody else, and so you came into my head. I don't accuse you-I won't accuse anybody-only," he adde

e it's hot enough to melt 'e

, with a cross-examining air, "How much mone

nd sixpence, last night when I counted it," s

or you'd been me-for it comes to the same thing-you wouldn't have thought you'd found everything as you left it. But what I vote is, as two of the sensiblest o' the company should go with you to Master Kench, the constable's-he's ill i' bed, I know that much-and get him to appoint one of us his deppity; for that's t

his self-complacency, and waited with confidence to hea

lso considered himself personally concerned in this proposition

er. "For it'll look bad when Justice Malam hears as respectable

ri, he consented to take on himself the chill dignity of going to Kench's. But to the farrier's strong disgust, Mr. Macey now started an objection to his proposing himsel

octor-for a fly's a fly, though it may be a hoss-fly," con

liked-the law meant, he needn't be one if he didn't like. Mr. Macey thought this was nonsense, since the law was not likely to be fonder of doctors than of other

"and there's no man can say it of me, if he'd tell the truth. But if there's to be any jealousy and env

to act officially; and so poor Silas, furnished with some old coverings, turned out with his two companions into the rain again,