He wanted to know about all the grand folks round about, where they lived and how long they'd lived there.

At last he made me tell him the way to Normanthorpe House, after asking any amount of questions about Mr.and Mrs.Steel; it was hard work not to tell him what had just come out, but I remembered what you said before you went away, sir, and I left that to others." "Good!" said Langholm.

"But did he go to Normanthorpe ?" "He started, though I begged him to sit still while we tried to get him a trap from the village; and his self-will nearly cost him his life, if it doesn't yet.

He was hardly out of sight when we see him come staggering back with his handkerchief up to his mouth, and the blood dripping through his fingers into the road." "A hemorrhage!" "Yes, sir, yon was the very word the doctor used, and he says if he has another it'll be all up.

So you may think what a time I've had! If he's a friend of yours, sir, I'm sure I don't mind.