He would come galloping over at dusk, tie his horse to a tree in the wood, and pass an hour or two with Afy.

In the house, when her father was not at home; roaming about the woods with her, when he was." "Come to the point, Richard--to the evening." "Hallijohn's gun was out of order, and he requested the loan of mine.

I had made an appointment with Afy to be at her house that evening, and I went down after dinner, carrying the gun with me.

My father called after me to know where I was going; I said, out with young Beauchamp, not caring to meet his opposition; and the lie told against me at the inquest.

When I reached Hallijohn's, going the back way along the fields, and through the wood-path, as I generally did go, Afy came out, all reserve, as she could be at times, and said she was unable to receive me then, that I must go back home.