To what purpose should I mention them ?" "For your own sake, or, I should say, for the sake of the cause you are engaged in, don't do it." The bitterness of expression which darkened the old man's features, while he spoke of the Baronet, was perfectly diabolical, and threw him back from the good opinion which the stranger was about to form of him, notwithstanding his conduct on the previous day's visit.
"You don't appear to like Sir Thomas," he said.

"He is certainly no favorite of yours." "Like him," replied the old man, bitterly.

"He is supposed to be the best friend I have; but little you know the punishment he will get in his heart, sowl, and spirit--little you know what he will be made to suffer yet.

Of course now you undherstand, that if I could help you, as you say, to advance a single step in finding the right heir of this property I would do it.

As matthers stand now, however, I can do nothing--but I'll tell you what I will do--I'll be on the lookout--I'll ask, seek, and inquire from them that have been about him at the time of the child's disappearance, and if I can get a single particle worth mentionin' to you, you shall have it, if I could only know where a letther would find you." The cunning, the sagacity, the indefinable twinkle that scintillated from the small, piercing eyes, were too obvious to be overlooked.