Three years after this poor young woman ran away there was a drunken groom dismissed from Lord Durnsville's stable; and what must he needs do but come straight off to James Halliday, to vent his spite against his master, and perhaps to curry favour at Newhall.

'You shouldn't have gone to London to look for the young lady, Muster Halliday,' he said; 'you should have gone the other way.

I know a man as drove Mr.Kingdon and your wife's sister across country to Hull with two of my lord's own horses, stopping to bait on the way.

They went aboard ship at Hull, Mr.Kingdon and the young lady--a ship that was bound for foreign parts.' This is what the groom said; but it was little good knowing it now.

There'd been advertisements in the papers beseeching her to come back; and everything had been done that could be done, and all to no end.