All were asleep at the cottage, when Lord Colambre arrived, except the widow, who was sitting up, waiting for him; and who had brought her dog into the house, that he might not fly at him, or bark at his return.

She had a roast chicken ready for her guest, and it was--but this she never told him the only chicken she had left; all the others had been sent with the DUTY-FOWL as a present to the under-agent's lady.

While he was eating his supper, which he ate with the better appetite, as he had had no dinner, the good woman took down from the shelf a pocket-book, which she gave him: 'Is not that your book ?' said she.

'My boy Brian found it after you in the potato furrow, where you dropped it.' 'Thank you,' said Lord Colambre; 'there are bank notes in it, which I could not afford to lose.' 'Are there ?' said she; 'he never opened it--nor I.' Then, in answer to his inquiries about Grace and the young man, the widow answered, 'They are all in heart now, I thank ye kindly, sir, for asking; they'll sleep easy to-night anyway, and I'm in great spirits for them and myself--for all's smooth now.

After we parted you, Brian saw Mr.Dennis himself about the LASE and memorandum, which he never denied, but knew nothing about.