"I tell you you don't know him." "Nay; but I think I do, dear; and, if I could show him that it was to his own advantage to have me for his son-in-law, in place of--" "You would not persuade him," interrupted the young girl, firmly--"not even if you were Carew of Crompton's heir." The words she had used were meant to express exhaustless wealth--for with such was the owner of Gethin still credited in that far-away corner of his possession--but they startled and offended Richard.

"I may not be Carew's heir," said he, haughtily; "but I have some power at Crompton, and I can exert it in your father's favor." Harry shook her head.

"He wants for nothing," she said, "that you can give him.

He is wealthier than you imagine.

He has two thousand pounds in notes, for which he has no use; they lie in the strong-box in my room.