'If you can't stop that noise,' he said, 'or keep it out of my hearing, I'll send the child to be taken care of in Hebsworth, or somewhere else further off, and then I'll shut up the house and send you all about your business.

So just mind what I say.' Of late it had become known that he was about to take a partner into his business, a member of the Legge family--a name we remember.

Dunfieldians discussed the news, and revived their pleasure in speculating on the sum total of Dagworthy's fortune.

But it was as one talks of possible mines of treasure in the moon; practical interest in the question could scarcely be said to exist, for the chance of Dagworthy's remarriage seemed remoter than ever.

The man was beginning to be one of those figures about whom gathers the peculiar air of mystery which ultimately leads to the creation of myths.