He was favored with more than one visit from our little wandering Jicks.

On each occasion, the child gravely reminded him of his rash promise to appeal to the police, and visit with corporal punishment the two ugly strangers who had laughed at her.

When were the men to be beaten?
and when was Jicks to see it?
Such were the serious questions with which this young lady regularly opened the proceedings, on each occasion when she favored Oscar with a morning call.
On the sixth day, the gold and silver plates were returned to Browndown from the manufactory in London.
The next morning a note arrived for me from Oscar.

It ran thus:-- "DEAR MADAME PRATOLUNGO,--I regret to inform you that nothing happened to me last night.

My locks and bolts are in their usual good order; my gold and silver plates are safe in the workshop: and I myself am now eating my breakfast with an uncut throat--Yours ever, "OSCAR." After this, there was no more to be said.