I shall be there, please God, before many days are over." "Indeed!" says the Baronet, with an air of great surprise.

"You are going down to look at the cradle of our race.

I believe the Newcomes were there before the Conqueror.

It was but a village in our grandfather's time, and it is an immense flourishing town now, for which I hope to get--I expect to get--a charter." "Do you ?" says the Colonel.

"I am going down there to see a relation." "A relation! What relatives have we there ?" cries the Baronet.