What ought I to do now ?" "I should do nothing,--except dismiss Bozzle." "You know that that is nonsense, Stanbury." "Whatever I did I should dismiss Bozzle." Stanbury was now quite in earnest, and, as he repeated his suggestion for the dismissal of the policeman, pushed his writing things away from him.

"If you ask my opinion, you know, I must tell you what I think.

I should get rid of Bozzle as a beginning.

If you will only think of it, how can your wife come back to you if she learns that you have set a detective to watch her ?" "But I haven't set the man to watch her." "Colonel Osborne is nothing to you, except as he is concerned with her.

This man is now down in her neighbourhood; and, if she learns that, how can she help feeling it as a deep insult?
Of course the man watches her as a cat watches a mouse." "But what am I to do?
I can't write to the man and tell him to come away.