At this date much of the evidence that may once have been available will have been dissipated.

You are rash to despair so soon." "There is that," his lordship admitted thoughtfully, a little hopefully, even; "there is that." And with the resilience of his nature--of men who form opinions on slight grounds, and, therefore, are ready to change them upon grounds as slight--"I' faith! I may have been running to meet my trouble.

'Tis but a rumor, after all, that Wharton is for mischief, and--as you say--as like as not there'll be no evidence by now.

There was little enough at the time.
"Still, I'll make doubly sure.

My letter to King James can do no harm.
We'll talk of it again, when you are in case to travel." It passed through Mr.Caryll's mind at the moment that Lady Ostermore and her son might between them brew such mischief as might seriously hinder him from travelling, and he was very near the truth.