MR.

WILDING'S RETURN.
The preparations to be made for the momentous coup Sir Rowland meditated were considerable.

Mr.Newlington was yet to be concerted with and advised, and, that done, Sir Rowland had to face the difficulty of eluding the Bridgwater guards and make his way to Feversham's camp at Somerton to enlist the general's cooperation to the extent that we have seen he looked for.

That done, he was to return and ripen his preparations for the business he had undertaken.

Nevertheless, in spite of all that lay before him, he did not find it possible to leave Lupton House without stepping out into the garden in quest of Ruth.