Mr. Scarborough's Family

of him. In every newspaper which he took in his hand he looked first for the paragraph respecting the fate of the missing man, which the paper was sure to contain in one of

remain unconnected with the story. Men asked him questions as though he were likely to know; and he would answer them, asserting that he knew nothing, but still leaving an impression behind that he did know more than he chose to avow. Many inquiries were made daily at this time in Scotland Yard as to the captain

nderstood when he accepted the invitation that no one else was to be there, and must have been aware that it was the intention of the heir of Tretton to talk to him respecting his brother. He had not seen Scarborough since he had been up in town, and had not been desirous of seeing him; but when the invitation came he had told himself that it would be better that he should accept it

brother, and must, therefore, have known among other things of the quarrel which had taken place in the streets. He knew

shamed of the part which he took in the street-fight, and be anxious to conceal it. No doubt Mountjoy was the first offender, but something had occurred

gh reasoned with himself when he as

which he now occupied in the Temple; but he had as yet made no sign of a desire to leave them. They were up two pair

here is such a crowd of things to be talked of about poor

ad, no doubt, been a certain degree of intimacy between them, but nothing which made it essential that the captain's difficulties should be exposed to him. The matter which touc

f such a devil of a

s not only that h

it is the only natural thing in it. Given all the other circumstances, I should have foretold

ied Harry. "Where has he gone

walking down St. James's Street to-morrow. But they are a sanguine gentry, these holders of bills, and I really believe that if they could see him they would embrace him with the warmest affection. In the mean time let us have

le young Pitcher was passing in and out of the room, so that there appeared no awkward vacancies of silence while one course succeeded the other. The weather was very hot, the grouse were very tempting, everybody was very dull, and members of Parliament more stupid than anybody else; but a good time was coming. Would Harry come down to Tretton and see the old governor? There was not much to offer him in the way

e directly I've done eating," he said. "Drinking goes with smoking as well as it does with eating, s

hat he knew, Mountjoy Scarborough to be a thorough blackguard; one whom no sense of honesty kept from spending money, and who was now a party to robbing his creditors without the slightest compunction,-for it was in Harry's mind that Mountjoy

he did not feel inclined quite to say so to the brother, nor was he perfectly certain as to his host's honesty. It might be that the three Scarboroughs were all in a league toge

in speaking because he's my broth

-reader would call romantic; but what I, who am

n induced at last to tell the truth, from most dishonest causes, he would not have been a bit better off than he is. I doubt whether he could have raised another cou

ppose

nker's and no misfortune could touch him. He being such as he is,-or, alas! for aught we know, such as he was,-the escape which the property has had cannot but be regarded

in Scarborough's manner in speaking of his father which almost produced bel

remarkable circumstance. My father, for purposes of his own, which includes the absolute throwing over of Mountjoy's creditors, changes his plan, and is pleased to restore to me that of which he had resolved to rob me. What father would dare to look in the face of the son whom he had thus resolved to defraud? My father tells me the story with a gentle chuckle, showing almost as much indifference t

ate, will get

the truth, I do not feel the slightest animosity toward him. But as I look at him I think him to be the most remarkable

umstances of your brother's birth shou

my pocket is merely mine because of the law. He did choose to marry my mother before I was born, but did not choose to go through that ceremony before my brother's time. That may be a trifle to you, or to my moral feeling may be a trifle; but bec

ould not but think of his own father and his own mother, and his feelings in regard to them. But here this man was talking of

el that a murder is nothing. I don't suppose my father can be punished for his attempt to rob me of twenty thousand a year, and therefore he talks to me about it as though it were a good joke. Not only that

tjoy's feelings

e is no need to consider my father's, but poor M

ld thin

sh to undertake such a work secretly unless they've been concerned in the murder; and then there will have been a noise which must have been h

, and feeling that he was guilty of a falsehoo

the question with an abruptness which was predet

ing back in his memory to the last meeting, which ha

he asked in an indifferent tone, being anxious not to discover his purp

rd the news which must have aston

stus, "how Florence M

owed to see her." This he said with an assertion to himself that tho

s of Tretton. She was always afraid of Mountjoy, but I do not know that she ever loved him. She had become so used to the idea of marrying him that she would

ucky enough to get her," said Harry, with a certain tone of magnifi

t that Florence Mountjoy shall marry the heir to Tretton Park. I am in that position now, and I only throw it out as a hint that I may feel disposed to follow out the family arrangement. Of course if other things come in the way there will be an en

ll desirous, he said, that his son should be brought back to the world, particularly as he had made it evident by his disappearance that he was anxious to keep out of the way. "Why should I pay the fellows? It's no business of mine," he had said to his son. And from that moment he had declined to do more than make up the first subscription which had been suggested to him. But the police had been kept very busy, and it was

t news have you to-d

in Skye, just here and there, with no

f a looking

there's no knowing what disguises a fellow will put on. I don't t

ering about in Skye where he would be know

"Wilkinson seems to think that a man may be anybody as long

out of England," said

when they remains at home they're uncommon troublesome. There was a man wandering about in County Donegal. We call Ireland at home, because we've so much to do with their police since the Land League came up; but this chap

ut it at all. I have no me

ard, I thought that, as you was asking so many que

gustus, "was acquainted with Capt

ore than usually interested, al

t I do not know that I am going to give you my reason.

port that hasn't been watched from two days after his disappearance, and there isn't a port as won't be watched as soon as any English steamer touches 'em. We've got our eyes out, and we means to use 'em. Good-night, Mr. Sc

hat it was so as soon as he was alone with Augustus Scarborough. "I'

t such men are allow

n of your own, and he at once connected you with Mountjoy's disappearance. Such creatures are necessary, but from the little I've seen of them I do not think that they ma

en a something in his manner which had excited suspicion in Harry's mind. And then Augustus had declared his purpose of offering his hand and fortune to Florence Mountjoy. He to be suitor to Florence,-he, so soon after Mountjoy had been banished from the scene! And w