And seeing you here, recalls me to a duty I owe Mr.Lathom.

Mr.Lathom, I have spoken to you pretty plainly,--forgetting, until I saw Mr.Gray, that only this very afternoon I differed from him on this very question; taking completely, at that time, the same view of the whole subject which you have done; thinking that the county would be well rid of such a man as Job Gregson, whether he had committed this theft or not.

Mr.Gray and I did not part quite friends," she continued, bowing towards him; "but it so happened that I saw Job Gregson's wife and home,--I felt that Mr.Gray had been right and I had been wrong, so, with the famous inconsistency of my sex, I came hither to scold you," smiling towards Mr.Lathom, who looked half-sulky yet, and did not relax a bit of his gravity at her smile, "for holding the same opinions that I had done an hour before.

Mr.Gray," (again bowing towards him) "these young ladies will be very much obliged to you for your escort, and so shall I.

Mr.Lathom, may I beg of you to accompany me to Henley ?" Mr.Gray bowed very low, and went very red; Mr.Lathom said something which we none of us heard, but which was, I think, some remonstrance against the course he was, as it were, compelled to take.