"Here we are--Aylsey Cross; and here we are again--Bowford Cross, Callindale Cross, Huxter's Cross, Jarnam Cross, Kingborough Cross." Then, after a careful examination of the column, he exclaimed, "Those are all the Crosses in the county of York, and it will go hard with us if you or I can't find the descendants of Christian Meynell's daughter at one of them.

The daughter herself may be alive, for anything we know." "And how about the Samuel Meynell who died at Calais?
You'll have to find some record of his death, won't you?
I suppose in these cases one must prove everything." "Yes, I must prove the demise of Samuel," replied the sanguine genealogist; "that part of the business I'll see to myself, while you hunt out the female branch of the Meynells.

I want an outing after a long spell of hard work; so I'll run across to Calais and search for the register of Samuel's interment.

I suppose somebody took the trouble to bury him, though he was a stranger in the land." "And if I extort the name we want from poor old Sparsfield's recollection ?" "In that case you can start at once for the place, and begin your search on the spot.

It can't be above fifty years since this woman married, and there must be some inhabitant of the place old enough to remember her.