s essentially a

reminding him that it was time to give notice of the marriage at the church, and to secure berths in the steam

found out where

t y

l wait til

word?" Mrs. Weste

answered, with Ro

he rose, and pointed to the door. "Go back to America, as soon as

out of the bosom of her dress, and threw it into the fire. "The ori

cility, and walked out, havin

interrupted over his work by a person of bulky and

at he insisted on seeing it immediately. "Allow me to show you something else first," was the reply he received to this assertion of his will and pleasure. "Do you know a loaded pistol, sir, when you see it?" The barrel of the pistol approached within three inches of the barman's big head as he leaned over the writing-table. For once in his life he was taken by surprise. It had never occurred t

the value of the diamonds. When Mrs. Westerfield saw him again, on the next day, he appeared with undeniable claims on he

action, Mrs. Westerfield was at liberty to make her

. This lady - known to local fame as Miss Wigger - had already proposed to take Syd into training as a pupil teacher. "I'll force the child on," Miss Wigger prom

ome here," she wrote, "on Friday next, at any time before two o'clock, and Syd shall be ready for you. P.S.- I

er's anxious mind was, to use her o

door of her sitting-room and listened on the stairs. It still wanted for a few minutes to eight o'clock, when there was a ring at the house-bell.

e?" Mrs. West

ma'

. The servant obeyed, and found a letter. Mrs. Westerfield tore it open, standing on the stairs. It conta

. Count to the fourth plank in the floor, reckoning from the side wall on the right as you en

d man had earned his money, and had not attended to receive it - had not even sent word where or how it might be

She was on the point of sending for a cab, and driving it to his lodgin

e refused to show it to him until he had made her his wife. "Put a chisel in your pocket, when we go to church, to-morrow morning,"

public-house in which they had both served being the only witnesses present. The children were not permitted to

that the House was To Let; and a sour-tempered woman i

f keeping up appearances by examining the dilapidated house first. This d

answer to this request. "

first time. "What's cur

one time or another, to see this house," the woman

house, leaving it to his wife to pursue the subjec

ns, of course," she sa

an came o

pleasant smi

person was h

d woman became s

I tell! A b

self used when the Expert had irritated her. With serious misgi

lay loose on the floor. With both his big hands he rapidly cleared away t

other. There was the empty hole, tellin