By that time, too, all talk about this affair with the smugglers will have ceased; but, as your name is likely to come out at the trial of the men who were taken, so the squire thinks it will be better for you to keep away, for a time." The rest of the letter was filled up with an account of the excitement and alarm which had been felt when he was first missed.
"We were glad, indeed," she said, "when a letter was received from Richard Horton, saying that you were on board the Thetis.

Mr.Wilks tells me it was an abominably spiteful letter, and I am sure the squire thinks so, too, from the tone in which he spoke this afternoon about his nephew; but I can quite forgive him, for, if it had not been for his letter, we should not have known what had become of you, and many months might have passed before we might have heard from you in America.

As it is, only four or five days have been lost, and the squire is writing tonight to obtain your discharge, which he assures me there will be no difficulty whatever about." The squire's was a very cordial letter, and he, too, enclosed notes for a hundred pounds.
"Mr.Wilks tells me," he said, "that you do not like the thought of doctoring.

I am not surprised, and I think that a young fellow, of such spirit and courage as you have shown, ought to be fitted for something better than administering pills and draughts to the old women of Sidmouth.

Tell me frankly, when you write, what you would like.