He was a very strong-willed man, and he hated outward trumpery." "Then it must be something that this man himself has dropped, unless it were a document, or any other token, missing from his lordship.

And few things of that sort would last for twenty years almost." "Nineteen years the day after to-morrow," I answered, with a glance at my pocket-book.

"I determined to be here on that very day.

No doubt I am very superstitious.

But one thing I can not understand is this--what reason can there have been for his letting so many years pass, and then hunting like this ?" "No one can answer that question, miss, without knowing more than we know.