WHICH RECORDS MR.

BELCHER'S CONNECTION WITH A GREAT SPECULATION AND BRINGS TO A CLOSE HIS RESIDENCE IN SEVENOAKS.
Whither was he going?
He had a little fortune in his pockets--more money than prudent men are in the habit of carrying with them--and a scheme in his mind.

After the purchase of Palgrave's Folly, and the inauguration of a scale of family expenditure far surpassing all his previous experience, Mr.Belcher began to feel poor, and to realize the necessity of extending his enterprise.

To do him justice, he felt that he had surpassed the proprieties of domestic life in taking so important a step as that of changing his residence without consulting Mrs.Belcher.

He did not wish to meet her at once; so it was easy for him, when he left New York, to take a wide diversion on his way home.
For several months the reports of the great oil discoveries of Pennsylvania had been floating through the press.