Say you will fix a day to meet them.' 'Every farthing!' pursued Evan, on whom the tidings were beginning to operate.

'What! debts?
my poor father!' 'And a thumping sum, Van.

You will open your eyes wider.' 'But it shall be paid, mother,--it shall be paid.

Debts?
I hate them.
I'd slave night and day to pay them.' Mrs.Mel spoke in a more positive tense: 'And so will I, Van.

Now, go.' It mattered little to her what sort of effect on his demeanour her revelation produced, so long as the resolve she sought to bring him to was nailed in his mind; and she was a woman to knock and knock again, till it was firmly fixed there.