My private suspicions of his miserly character produce no discouraging effect on me.

I have extracted cheering pecuniary results in my time from people quite as fond of their money as he can be.

The real difficulty to contend with is the obstacle of Mrs.Lecount.If I am not mistaken, this lady merits a little serious consideration on my part.

I will close my chronicle for to-day, and give Mrs.Lecount her due.
_Three o'clock._--I open these pages again to record a discovery which has taken me entirely by surprise.
After completing the last entry, a circumstance revived in my memory which I had noticed on escorting the ladies this morning to the railway.
I then remarked that Miss Vanstone had only taken one of her three boxes with her--and it now occurred to me that a private investigation of the luggage she had left behind might possibly be attended with beneficial results.

Having, at certain periods of my life been in the habit of cultivating friendly terms with strange locks, I found no difficulty in establishing myself on a familiar footing with Miss Vanstone's boxes.
One of the two presented nothing to interest me.