On the next day, however--the day before the boat left--Mr.Temple had made a visit to Jemima to bid her good-by, where he learned that her white lodger had decamped between suns, leaving two months board unpaid.

In the effort to find this man, or compel his employer to pay his bill, out of some wages still due him--in both of which he failed--his master had missed the boat and they were obliged to wait another week.

During this interim, not wishing to return to Pawson, and being as he said very comfortable where he was with his two servants to wait upon him, and the place as clean as a pin--his master had moved his own and Todd's trunk from the steamboat warehouse where they had been stored and had had them brought to Jemima's.

Two days later--whether from exposure in tramping the streets in his efforts to collect the old woman's bill, or whether the change of lodgings had affected him--he was taken down with a chill and had been in bed ever since.

With this situation staring both Jemima and himself in the face--for neither she nor Mr.Temple had much money left--Todd had appealed to Gadgem--( he being the only man in his experience who could always produce a roll of bills when everybody else failed)--who took him to the stableman whose accounts he collected--and who had once bought one of St.George's saddles--and who then and there hired Todd as night attendant.