I tell you that fairly, Master Harry.
"But mamma, in speaking against you, which she was bound to do in supporting poor Mountjoy, declared that you were the last person who had seen my cousin before his disappearance, and she knew that there had been some violent struggle between you.

Indeed, she knew all the truth as to that night, except that the attack had been made by Mountjoy on you.

She turned the story all round, declaring that you had attacked him,--which, as you perceive, gives a totally different appearance to the whole matter.

Somebody has told her,--though who it may have been I cannot guess,--but somebody has been endeavoring to do you all the mischief he can in the matter, and has made mamma think evil of you.

She says that after attacking him, and brutally ill-using him, you had left him in the street, and had subsequently denied all knowledge of having seen him.