You named Maxfield just now, sir.

Likely you know Squire Ingleton, my relative, at the manor-house there ?" The tutor's glass dropped abruptly.
"Your relative?
What relation were you to the old Squire ?" "_Was_ I--is he dead, then ?" "More than a year ago." "Sir," said the stranger, with some excitement, "that man was my sister's husband.

I guess I've come here a trifle late.

Dead?
He didn't look to have it in him.

What say ?" It said a good deal for Mr Ratman's nerve that in the tutor's presence he took upon himself to reply boldly-- "My father died rather suddenly a year since.