"I wonder whether he is any relation to the Sheldon who is in with a low set of money-lenders ?" "What, the Sheldon of Gray's Inn ?" exclaimed Mr.Hawkehurst.

"We can easily find that out." * * * * * Horatio Paget and Valentine Hawkehurst were frequent visitors at the Lawn after that first evening.

Mr.Sheldon found the Captain useful to him in the carrying out of certain business arrangements on more than one occasion, and the relations between the respectable stockbroker and the disreputable adventurer assumed a very friendly character.

Diana wondered to see so spotless a citizen as Philip Sheldon hand-and-glove with her father.

Mrs.Sheldon and Charlotte were delighted with the Captain and his _protege_; these two penniless Bohemians were so much more agreeable to the feminine mind than the City men who were wont to sit in the dining-room slowly imbibing Mr.Sheldon's old port in the long summer evenings, while their wives endured the abomination of desolation with Georgy and Charlotte in the drawing-room.