Had he felt sure that this man was his brother, he would have, at all risk and in spite of all, tried to help him.

Even so, to help him with one hand would mean to ruin him with the other.

If he found him, it would be to hand him over to the police.

If he procured his escape, it would be to oust him irrevocably from his inheritance.
There seemed nothing for it but to do nothing and wait.
In other quarters the policy of inaction found little favour.

Mr Headland called up the same evening at Maxfield and demanded an interview with the tutor.
"Wal, young man," said he, "I calculate those two hundred-pound notes of mine didn't travel so far astray after all." "You have traced them, then ?" "I've been three weeks doing it, but I have so." "And with what conclusion ?" "Just this, that Captain E.