Thou art, indeed, a curious animal! One would think, to read your communication, that you had yourself discovered the propriety of acting as a negotiator, and the reasons which might, in the course of such a treaty, be urged with advantage to induce this fellow to leave the country--Why, this is the very course chalked out in my last letter! You are bolder than the boldest gipsy, for you not only steal my ideas, and disfigure them that they may pass for yours, but you have the assurance to come a-begging with them to the door of the original parent! No man like you for stealing other men's inventions, and cooking them up in your own way.

However, Harry, bating a little self-conceit and assumption, thou art as honest a fellow as ever man put faith in--clever, too, in your own style, though not quite the genius you would fain pass for .-- Come on thine own terms, and come as speedily as thou canst.

I do not reckon the promise I made the less binding, that you very generously make no allusion to it.
"Thine, "ETHERINGTON.
"P.S.

One single caution I must add--do not mention my name to any one at Harrowgate, or your prospect of meeting me, or the route which you are about to take.

On the purpose of your journey, it is unnecessary to recommend silence.