The fact is, that your friends, as they call themselves, moving heaven and earth to get you back, by getting me out of the way, have hit on the expedient of spreading false reports about me, and issuing scandals against me.

They found out my address at the Nag's Head, and came there after me not half an hour after you were gone, and I only got out of their way by good luck.

You ought to give me credit for not giving any living soul the secret of our whereabouts, so that all I have got to do is to keep quiet here until our little business is settled, and then I shall be able to face them boldly again, and set everything straight." "How cruel!" she said; "how unjust! I will never believe anything against you, George." "I am sure of that, my darling;" he said, kissing her.

"But now, there is another matter I must speak about, though I don't like to,--I am getting short of money, love." "I have got nearly a hundred pounds, George," she said; "and, as I told you, I have five thousand pounds in the funds, which I can sell out at any time I like." "We shall do well, then, my Polly.

Now let us go for a walk." All that week George stayed with her quietly, till the time of residence necessary before they could be married was expired.