But my horse is getting fidgety down there; I must look after him.

Good-bye." Mr Armstrong was a little surprised, when he came to go through the accounts with his co-trustee that afternoon, to find that he must have been mistaken in his previous supposition that they were not all correct and straightforward.

Everything appeared quite plain and properly accounted for, and he agreed with the figures, rather abashed to feel that, after all, he was not as acute a man of business as he had flattered himself.

Mr Pottinger and the captain rallied him about his deserted mares'-nest, and bored him with invitations to go through all the items again, to give him a chance of proving them wrong.

He declined with thanks, and signed the balance with the best grace he could summon.
"Odd," said he to himself, as he strode home after the interview; "either you must be very clever or I must be very stupid.