Feasting was arranged at Riversley, as well as at Dipwell, and she said musically, 'Harry, the squire is a very old man, and you may not have many more chances of pleasing him.

To-day do, do! To-morrow, ride to your father, if you must: of course you must if you think it right; but don't go this day.' 'Not upset my fortune, Janet ?' 'Don't hurt the kind old man's heart to-day.' 'Oh! you're the girl of his heart, I know.' 'Well, Harry, you have first place, and I want you to keep it.' 'But here's an oath I've sworn to my father.' 'He should not have exacted it, I think.' 'I promised him when I was a youngster.' 'Then be wiser now, Harry.' 'You have brilliant ideas of the sacredness of engagements.' 'I think I have common sense, that's all.' 'This is a matter of feeling.' 'It seems that you forgot it, though!' Kiomi's tents on Durstan heath rose into view.

I controlled my verbal retort upon Janet to lead her up to the gipsy girl, for whom she had an odd aversion, dating from childhood.

Kiomi undertook to ride to Dipwell, a distance of thirty miles, and carry the message that I would be there by nightfall.

Tears were on Janet's resolute face as we cantered home.
After breakfast the squire introduced me to his lawyer, Mr.Burgin, who, closeted alone with me, said formally, 'Mr.Harry Richmond, you are Squire Beltham's grandson, his sole male descendant, and you are established at present, and as far as we can apprehend for the future, as the direct heir to the whole of his property, which is enormous now, and likely to increase so long as he lives.