IN WHICH MR.

IRONS'S NARRATIVE REACHES MERTON MOOR.
'Well, I did as he bid me, and set the glass of rum before him, and in place of drinking it, he follows me out.

"I told you," says he, "I'd find a way, and I'm going to give you fifty guineas apiece.

Stand you at the stair-head," says he to Glascock, "and listen; and if you hear anyone coming, step into Mr.Beauclerc's room with his boots, do you see, for I'm going to rob him." I thought I'd a fainted, and Glascock, that was a tougher lad than me, was staggered; but Mr.Archer had a way of taking you by surprise, and getting you into a business before you knew where you were going.

"I see, Sir," says Glascock.