I shall find him work there--I wish I'd done so months ago.' There were no longer the objections to 'Arry's appearance at Wanley that had existed previous to Richard's marriage; none the less the resolution was courageous, and proved the depth of Mutimer's anxiety for his brother.

Having got the old woman to Wilton Square, and Alice to the Manor, it would have been easy enough to bid Mr.Henry Mutimer betake himself--whither his mind directed him.

Richard could not adopt that rough-and-ready way out of his difficulty.

Just as he suffered in the thought that he might be treating his mother unkindly, so he was constrained to undergo annoyances rather than abandon the hope of saving 'Arry from ultimate destruction.
'Will he live at the Manor ?' Alice asked uneasily.
Richard mused; then a most happy idea struck him.
'I have it! He shall live with Rodman.

The very thing! Rodman's the fellow to look after him.