Gowen, Bench, and Parsons thought proper to stop Miss Vincent at the head of her detachment in the park.' 'On the Sunday ?' 'And one of them handed her a paper containing a report of their interview with Mrs.Coop and a neat eulogy of little Jane.

But don't suspect them, I beg.

I believe them to be good, honest fellows.

Bench, they say, is religious; Gowen has written verses; Parsons generally harum-scarum.

They're boyish in one way or another, and that'll do.