If the lad gets caught, and gets two or three years' imprisonment, it will ruin his prospects in life.

His mother will be broken hearted over the business, and I am sure Aggie will take it terribly to heart.

They were great friends of old, though she hasn't seen much of him for the last two or three years, and, of course, that affair of the other day has made quite a hero of him." "We must hope the lugger will get safely over to France," his companion said.

"Then no great harm will have been done." "We must hope so," the squire assented moodily.

"Confound the young jackanapes, turning everything upside down, and upsetting us all with his mad-brain freaks." Mrs.Walsham was greatly distressed, when the news was broken to her by Mr.Wilks, and Aggie cried so that the squire, at last, said she must go straight up to bed unless she stopped, for she would be making herself ill again.