He's quite a different character from this one; a gauntish fellow, with dark hair and eyes, rather good-looking, and with a musical bass voice that if you heard it once you'd never mistake as long as you lived.' 'Why, souls--'twas the man in the chimney-corner!' 'Hey--what ?' said the magistrate, coming forward after inquiring particulars from the shepherd in the background.

'Haven't you got the man after all ?' 'Well, sir,' said the constable, 'he's the man we were in search of, that's true; and yet he's not the man we were in search of.

For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted, sir, if you understand my everyday way; for 'twas the man in the chimney-corner!' 'A pretty kettle of fish altogether!' said the magistrate.

'You had better start for the other man at once.' The prisoner now spoke for the first time.

The mention of the man in the chimney-corner seemed to have moved him as nothing else could do.