I shall do it, at any rate, under better circumstances than my brother." Some arrangement was at last made which was satisfactory to the son, and which we must presume that the father found to be endurable.

Then the son took his leave, and went back to London, with the understood intention of pushing the inquiries as to his brother's existence and whereabouts.
The sudden and complete disappearance of Captain Scarborough struck Mrs.
Mountjoy with the deepest awe.

It was not at first borne in upon her to believe that Captain Mountjoy Scarborough, an officer in the Coldstreams, and the acknowledged heir to the Tretton property, had vanished away as a stray street-sweeper might do, or some milliner's lowest work-woman.

But at last there were advertisements in all the newspapers and placards on all the walls, and Mrs.Mountjoy did understand that the captain was gone.

She could as yet hardly believe that he was no longer heir to Tretton: and in such short discussions with Florence as were necessary on the subject she preferred to express no opinion whatever as to his conduct.