Mr Moffat Falls into Trouble We will now, with the reader's kind permission, skip over some months in our narrative.

Frank returned from Courcy Castle to Greshamsbury, and having communicated to his mother--much in the same manner as he had to the countess--the fact that his mission had been unsuccessful, he went up after a day or two to Cambridge.

During his short stay at Greshamsbury he did not even catch a glimpse of Mary.

He asked for her, of course, and was told that it was not likely that she would be at the house just at present.

He called at the doctor's, but she was denied to him there; "she was out," Janet said,--"probably with Miss Oriel." He went to the parsonage and found Miss Oriel at home; but Mary had not been seen that morning.