'Here,' he said, emptying his pocket and returning to the lad's side.

'Take this, and order yourself a good meal.

You keep me as poor as a crow.

There shall be more to-morrow.' The peculiarly bifold nature of Captain De Stancy, as shown in his conduct at different times, was something rare in life, and perhaps happily so.

That mechanical admixture of black and white qualities without coalescence, on which the theory of men's characters was based by moral analysis before the rise of modern ethical schools, fictitious as it was in general application, would have almost hit off the truth as regards Captain De Stancy.