Thank you, Simpkinson.

I'm so much obliged to you.

I hope I shall see you over in England some day when things are a little settled." With this Simpkinson was delighted,--as he was also with the commission entrusted to him.
And so Fred Neville was the Earl of Scroope.

Not that he owned even to himself that the title and all belonging to it were as yet in his own possession.

Till the body of the old man should be placed in the family vault he would still be simply Fred Neville, a lieutenant in Her Majesty's 20th Hussars.