He thinks it came from the dean." "And are you sure it did not ?" "Yes; quite sure; as sure as I can be of anything.

The dean told me he would give him fifty pounds, and the fifty pounds came.

I had them in my own hands.

And he has written to say that it was so." "But couldn't this be part of the fifty pounds ?" "No, dear, no." "Then where did papa get it?
Perhaps he picked it up, and has forgotten ?" To this Mrs.Crawley made no reply.

The idea that the cheque had been found by her husband,--had been picked up as Jane had said,--had occurred also to Jane's mother.