And, to speak out my thoughts on the subject, I think she'd be a fool to decline the arrangement, even against your magnificent proposals.

Still, I'm heart and hand with you, and ready to venture even upon the old boy's dominions to serve a long-tried friend.

There is one significant fact which I heard to-day that makes strong against you.
It is said that Mr.Willet is about making a change in his business, and that Markland is to be associated with him in some new arrangements.

That looks as if matters were settled between the two families.

In my next letter I hope to communicate something more satisfactory." On the day after receiving this communication, Lyon, while walking the floor in one of the parlours, saw a man pass in from the street, and go hurriedly along the hall.