"Though tastes and affections, as well as worldly interests, prompted this return to native scenes and early acquaintances, it was a step reluctantly taken, and I believe, sincerely repented of.

The beginning was ominous.

As we were slowly quitting the place preceded by our furniture, a stranger, though one who knew my father's circumstances, called out in an impressive tone, 'You are wrong, you are wrong!'" The sound, he afterwards admitted, found an echo in his own conscience, and during the whole journey seemed to ring in his ears "like a supernatural voice." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 2: See a pleasant paper on Crabbe at Muston and Allington by the Rev.W.H.Hutton of St John's College, Oxford, in the _Cornhill Magazine_ for June 1901.].