"I'll put up at the Inn." Mr.Morton begged the heir to come to his own house; but Silverbridge declared that he would prefer the Inn, and so the matter was settled.

He was to meet sundry politicians,--Mr.Sprugeon and Mr.
Sprout and Mr.Du Boung,--who would like to be thanked for what they had done.

But who was to go with him?
He would naturally have asked Tregear, but from Tregear he had for the last week or two been, not perhaps estranged, but separated.

He had been much taken up with racing.

He had gone down to Chester with Major Tifto, and under the Major's auspicious influences had won a little money;--and now he was very anxiously preparing himself for the Newmarket Second Spring Meeting.