The head of the department in which he was working might be referred to if any corroboration of this statement was desired.

Such was the general tenor of the letters; and Frank's correspondent and Frank's father differed over them as widely as usual.

Mr.Vanstone accepted them as proofs of the steady development of industrious principles in the writer.

Mr.Clare took his own characteristically opposite view.

"These London men," said the philosopher, "are not to be tri fled with by louts.