Take a chair, sir--please to take a chair." "I find very little to my credit," Mr.Carne said, dryly, as he took the offered chair, but kept his eyes still upon Cheeseman's; "but among that little is a bond from you, given nearly twenty years agone, and of which you will retain, no doubt, a vivid recollection." "A bond, sir--a bond!" exclaimed the other, with his bright eyes twinkling, as in some business enterprise.

"I never signed a bond in all my life, sir.

Why, a bond requires sureties, and nobody ever went surety for me." "Bond may not be the proper legal term.

It is possible.

I know nothing of the English law.