CHAPTER VI.
THE EARL OF SCROOPE IS IN TROUBLE.
Not a word was said to the young lord on his return home respecting the O'Haras till he himself had broached the subject.

He found his brother Jack Neville at Scroope on his arrival, and Sophie Mellerby was still staying with his aunt.

A day had been fixed for the funeral, but no one had ventured to make any other arrangement till the heir and owner should be there.

He was received with solemn respect by the old servants who, as he observed, abstained from calling him by any name.

They knew that it did not become them to transfer the former lord's title to the heir till all that remained of the former lord should be hidden from the world in the family vault; but they could not bring themselves to address a real Earl as Mr.Neville.His aunt was broken down by sorrow, but nevertheless, she treated him with a courtly deference.