When you thought I was going to church, I went down the Kent Road, and walked on till I came to Gravesend, which is upwards of twenty miles from Blackheath; at about seven o'clock in the evening, without having eat anything the whole time.

I applied to an inkeeper (_sic_) there, pretending that I had served a haberdasher in London, who left of (_sic_) business, and turned me away.

He believed me; and got me a passage in the coach here, for I said that I had an Uncle here, and that my Father and Mother were dead;--when I wandered about the quays for some time, till I met Captain Keys, whom I asked to give me a passage to Boulogne; which he promised to do, and took me home to breakfast with him: but Mrs.Keys questioned me a good deal; when I not being able to make my story good, I was obliged to confess to her that I had run away from you.

Captain Keys says that he will keep me at his house till you answer my letter.
"J.

STERLING." Anthony remembers the business well; but can assign no origin to it,--some penalty, indignity or cross put suddenly on John, which the hasty John considered unbearable.