Says I, "It's marring good king's coin, at after a've made a hole in't, it'll never pass current again." So he mumbles, and mumbles, but for a' that it must needs be done; and he's left it here, and is t' call for 't to-morrow at e'en.' 'Oh, William Darley!' said Hester, clasping her hands tight together.

'Find out who he is, where he is--anything--everything about him--and I will so bless yo'.' Darley looked at her sharply, but with some signs of sympathy on his grave face.

'My woman,' he said 'a could ha' wished as you'd niver seen t' watch.

It's poor, thankless work thinking too much on one o' God's creatures.

But a'll do thy bidding,' he continued, in a lighter and different tone.