Part 2 (1/2)

'You see what you have done; you have cut me off from my own,' he said terribly to the squire; but tried immediately to soothe the urchin with nursery talk and the pats on the shoulder which encourage a little boy to grow fast and tall 'Four years of separation,' he resuht to think that he has no father By heavens! it is infamous, it is a curst piece of inhumanity Mr Beltham, if I do not see my wife, I carry off my son'

'You may ask till you're hoarse, you shall never see her in this house while I am here to command,' said the squire

'Very well; then Harry Riches homes I take him The affair is concluded'

'You take hi out

'You swear to me she has lost her wits; she cannot suffer I can

I shall not expect from you, Mr Beltham, the s You are earthy; you are an animal'

The squire saw that he was about to lift the boy, and said, 'Stop, never ain to-morrow, and you can see me and talk it over'

'Shall I see my wife?'

'No, you shan't'

'You remain faithful to your word, sir, do you?'

'I do'

'Then I do similarly'

'What! Stop! Not to take a child like that out of a coht is temperate and warm; he shall not remain in a house where his father is dishonoured'

'Stop! not a bit of it,' cried the squire 'No one speaks of you I give you my word, you 're never mentioned bya father insinuates dishonour, Mr Belthauardly hands off that boy,' the squire thundered 'Mind, if you take hiet a penny fro of him up You've done for hiar in a stolen coat like you, and I won't own hirandad'

Mr Rich to run

'That gentlerandpapa I am your papa You must learn at any cost to know and love your papa If I call for you to-morrow or next day they will have played tricks with Harry Richmond, and hid him Mr Beltham, I request you, for the final time, to accord me your promise observe, I accept your promise--that I shall, at my demand, to-morrow or the next day, obtain an intervieith hed out an emphatic 'Never!' and fortified it with an oath as he repeated it upon a fuller breath

'Sir, I will condescend to entreat you to grant this perently

'No, never: I won't!' rejoined the squire, red in the face fro 'I won't; but stop, put down that boy; listen to me, you Richmond! I'll tell you what I'll do I 'll--if you swear on a Bible, like a cadger before a bench of istrates, you'll never show your face within a circuit o' ten miles hereabouts, and won't trouble the boy if you hter or o the boy, and I'll give ye five hundred--I'll give ye a cheque on my banker for a thousand pounds; and, hark me out, you do this, you swear, as I said, on the servants' Bible, in the presence of my butler and me, ”Strike you dead as Ananias and t' other one if you don't keep to it,” do that now, here, on the spot, and I'll engage to see you paid fifty pounds a year into the bargain Stop! and I'll pay your debts under two or three hundred For God's sake, let go the boy!

You shall have fifty guineas on account this o the boy! And your son--there, I call him your son--your son, Harry Richmond, shall inherit from me; he shall have Riversley and the best part of ain? Will you swear?

Don't, and the boy's a beggar, he's a stranger here as much as you Take him, and by the Lord, you ruin hiot a cold already; ought to be in his bed; let the boy down!'

'You offer me nities belonging to a connection with a man like you You would have me sell my son To see s for my son; your money, sir, I toss to the winds; and I a you that I despise and loathe you I shrink fro my son to your besotted selfish example The boy is mine; I have him, and he shall traverse the wilderness with me By heaven! his destiny is brilliant He shall be hailed for what he is, the rightful clai the proudest in the land; and mark me, Mr Beltham, obstinate sensual old man that you are! I take the boy, and I consecratehim in his proper rank and station, and there, if you live and I live, you shall behold hi's head to the earth, and bemoan the day, by heaven! when you,--a coin, a creature hose blood we have mixed ours--and he is stone-blind to the honour conferred on him--when you in your besotted stupidity threatened to disinherit Harry Richmond'

The door slammed violently on such further speech as he had in hi the terrified boy about to sob, he drew a pretty box from one of his pockets and thrust a delicious sweet lips Then, after so which he struck his chest soundingly and gazed down, talked alternately to hi the s of the house, he at last dropped on one knee and swaddled the boy in the folds of the shawl Raising him in a business-like way, he settled hiravel-walk and lawn, like a horse to whose neck a smart touch of the whip has been applied

The soft ht had a ht-blue space of sky showed small rayless stars; the breeze sht than one of February