I should like to have witnessed it.

Did you call down Heaven's vengeance on the murderer in approved fashion?
How did the man of parchments take it ?" "You have no heart," said his son, flushing darkly under this sarcasm.

He walked towards the door as he spoke.

"I am going," he said.

"There is an excursion train through to Paddington to-night, and I shall catch it." "You are determined on it, then ?" "I should be in an unendurable position if I didn't," replied the young man, and without another word he left the room.
Austin looked after him a little wistfully, as though remembering that the other was, after all, his son.