There could not be two men in one parish to whom so large a sum was of so small an account as to be thrown to a bystander in return for a trifling piece of assistance.

Of course, it must have been Raffles Haw.

And his sister had the note, with instructions to return it to the owner, could he be found.

He threw aside his palette, and descending into the sitting-room he told Laura and his father of his morning's interview with the vicar, and of his conviction that this was the man of whom Hector was in quest.
"Tut! Tut!" said old McIntyre.

"How is this, Laura?
I knew nothing of this.