The young lady to whom you are to be married on Wednesday will inform you of the nature of the letter, and the genuineness of the autograph.

If you refuse to deal, I shall send a copy to the local paper, and shall wait on your highly-respected father with the original curiosity, on the afternoon of Tuesday next.

Having come down here on family business, I have put up at the family hotel--being to be heard of at the Gatliffe Arms.

Your very obedient servant, ALFRED DAVAGER." "A clever fellow that," says I, putting the letter into my private drawer.
"Clever!" cries Mr.Frank, "he ought to be horsewhipped within an inch of his life.

I would have done it myself; but she made me promise, before she told me a word of the matter, to come straight to you." "That was one of the wisest promises you ever made," says I."We can't afford to bully this fellow, whatever else we may do with him.