To-morrow he'll bring an excuse instead of her.

Then have your detectives about, for he is a villain; and, dear sir, please receive him in the drawing-room; then I will find some way to get a sight of him myself." "It shall be done," said the Colonel.

"I begin to think with you.

At all events, if the lady does not come, I shall hope it is all an imposture or a mistake." With this understanding they parted, and waited in anxiety for the morrow, but now their anxiety was checkered with hope.
* * * * * To-morrow bade fair to be a busy day.

Colonel Clifford, little dreaming the condition to which his son and his guest would be reduced, had invited Jem Davies and the rescuing parties to feast in tents on his own lawn and drink his home-brewed beer, and they were to bring with them such of the rescued miners as might be in a condition to feast and drink copiously.