But further to the south, about Wakefield, I am told there is a gentleman called Burchell Fenn, who is not so particular as some others, and might be willing to give you a cast forward.

In fact, sir, I believe it's the man's trade: a piece of knowledge that burns my mouth.

But that is what you get by meddling with rogues; and perhaps the biggest rogue now extant, M.de Saint-Yves, is your cousin, M.Alain.' 'If this be a man of my cousin's,' I observed, 'I am perhaps better to keep clear of him ?' 'It was through some paper of your cousin's that we came across his trail,' replied the lawyer.

'But I am inclined to think, so far as anything is safe in such a nasty business, you might apply to the man Fenn.

You might even, I think, use the Viscount's name; and the little trick of family resemblance might come in.