I am certain it will not be believed; and even if they can do nothing to him in the end, still the dragging it forward, and giving publicity to all the doubts that will be cast upon it, must interfere, materially, with your benevolent plan of rescuing him from misery.' 'Oh! what is to be done ?' cried Rose.

'Dear, dear! why did they send for these people ?' 'Why, indeed!' exclaimed Mrs.Maylie.

'I would not have had them here, for the world.' 'All I know is,' said Mr.Losberne, at last: sitting down with a kind of desperate calmness, 'that we must try and carry it off with a bold face.

The object is a good one, and that must be our excuse.

The boy has strong symptoms of fever upon him, and is in no condition to be talked to any more; that's one comfort.