Let us consult, and see how this is to be done." "This is the way the thing stands," said Sam.

"The house and park at Clere, were sold by my father for 12,000L.

to a brewer.

Since then, this brewer, a most excellent fellow by all accounts, has bought back, acre by acre, nearly half the old original property as it existed in my great grandfather's time, so that now Clere must be worth fifty thousand pounds at least.

This man's children are all dead; and as far as Captain Brentwood has been able to find out for me, no one knows exactly how the property is going.