Part 53 (2/2)

'”Nay but do you know his story?”

'”Perfectly I have heard it, not only from himself, but, from the man whom I suppose you have been told he has murdered”

'”What man?”

'”Nay you shall hear and see You shall have the whole history from the person's own mouth”

'”Is he alive? Is he in London?”

'”I will send for him He will be here in a few minutes You will then hear what this man has to say He almost adores Mr Trevor”

'I immediately dispatched Mary for Mr Clarke, orks not far off, as I suppose you know, and who ca the moment he heard that the lady you are in love with enquired for him

'Mary informs me that his heart leaped to his eyes (it was her own phrase) when he was told she wanted to question hi up, clapped his hands, and exclailad of it! The tihted! I will take care of that! He shall be righted!”

'He entered the room breathless; and, the aze at her: though bashfulness made him continually turn his eyes away

'She addressed hi in her, and said--”I have taken the liberty, sir, to send for you; to ask a few questions”

'He replied, with a burst of zeal--”I alad of it, from my heart and soul! I wish you knew all I could tell you about Mr Trevor: but it is quite _un_possible that I should remember it one half Only this I will say, and dare the best land to deny it, there is not such another brave and kind-hearted gentleh of it He knows, for all he is a gentleentle, and a Christian soul, which does not teach him to scorn and make a scoff of the poor: he knows that a h he should only happen to be a poor carpenter, like myself God in heaven bless hienerous humble friend overpowered Miss Mowbray; she burst into tears, and hid her face Her passion was catching, and I followed her exaht that he had the good hap to save your life, and the life of that old cankered lady, which as I find froh he talks of her too kindly by half, why the stopping of the frightened horses, just do you see in the jaws of destruction, and propping the coach was all his doing He knew better what he was about than the coachman himself And then, if you had seen hiht I had loved ht too I durst have stood up to the boldest man that ever stood on shoe leather! And perhaps I durst: but I find I a in any case to _he_ For which he never despises ood a man as he, in any way And as for you,lakes rather than a hair of your head should be singed I know it: for I have seen it”

'”I know it too,” said Miss Mowbray; sobbing Then, with an effort to quell her passion, she asked in a firmer tone: ”Pray, sir, tell reatest part of my life”

'”You appear to know of a battle, that Mr Trevor fought?”

'”Yes, yes,as I live, for more reasons than one”

'”Was there a man killed?”

'”No, madam: God be praised! I should have died inpossessed with passion He, God bless hied my pardon like a man; and held out his hand, and prayed over and over that I would forget and forgive

But, as I tell you, I was possessed I could be nothing else: because, in the way of hard fighting, I despised a gentleave me to know better, as obstinate as I was: for, even after he had beaten ed and prayed, as he had done at first, to make it all up But, as I said before, the Evil One had taken hold of ive in, till I was carried as dead as a stock off of the place”

'”Then it was you that was reported to have been killed?”

'”Why, yes, madam: because it could be nobody else”

'”Nay, but was not there a poor man ducked to death?”