Would you write for me, and let me see how it looks ?" This Lady Clavering did; and had she refused to do it, I think that poor Harry Clavering's check would have been used.

As it was, Lady Clavering wrote the letter to "My dear Lord Ongar," and it was copied and signed by "Yours most affectionately, Julia Brabazon." The effect of this was the receipt of a check for a thousand pounds in a very pretty note from Lord Ongar, which the lord brought with him to Clavering, and sent up to Julia as he was dressing for dinner.

It was an extremely comfortable arrangement, and Julia was very glad of the money--feeling it to be a portion of that which was her own.

And Harry's check had been returned to him on the day of its receipt.

"Of course I cannot take it, and of course you should not have sent it." These words were written on the morsel of paper in which the money was returned.