Mostyn is much annoyed that the Squire has begun to notice them.

He says one of the grandsons of the Tyrrel-Rawdons, disinherited for love's sake, came to America some time in the forties.

I asked your grandmother if this story was true.

She said it is quite true; that my father was his friend in the matter, and that it was his reports about America which made them decide to try their fortune in New York." "Does she know what became of him ?" "No.

In his last letter to them he said he had just joined a party going to the gold fields of California.