When he spoke of his lost fingers, George was led to suspect who Josiah really was.

Then he saw him, and as soon as he was sure, he wrote to a Mr.Woodburn, who was Josiah's old owner." "I suppose he recognized Josiah readily ?" "Yes, he had been a servant of George's friend, Mr.Woodburn, and George says he was a man indulgently treated and much trusted." "I infer from what I learned to-day that George told you all this and had already seen Swallow, so that the trap was set and Mr.Woodburn was to arrive.

Did George imagine you would warn my poor barber--" "But I--I didn't--I mean--I let John hear about it--and he told Josiah." He listened.

Here was another Mrs.Ann.There was in Ann at times a bewildering childlike simplicity with remarkable intelligence--a combination to be found in some of the nobler types of womanhood.

He made no remark upon her way of betraying the trust implied in George Grey's commonplace confession.
"So, then, my dear, John went and gave the man a warning ?" "Yes, I would have gone, but it was at night and I thought it better to let John see him.