At last he sat down again and fell asleep.
He awoke at six o'clock to find that she had not returned.

In searching about the rooms he discovered that she had taken a case of jewels which had been hers before her marriage.

At eight a note was brought him; it was from his wife, in which she stated that she had gone by the coach to the house of a distant relative near London, and expressed a wish that certain boxes, articles of clothing, and so on, might be sent to her forthwith.

The note was brought to him by a waiter at the Black-Bull Hotel, and had been written by Mrs.Barnet immediately before she took her place in the stage.
By the evening this order was carried out, and Barnet, with a sense of relief, walked out into the town.

A fair had been held during the day, and the large clear moon which rose over the most prominent hill flung its light upon the booths and standings that still remained in the street, mixing its rays curiously with those from the flaring naphtha lamps.