CHAPTER XI.
"Whose powers shed round him in the common strife Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; * * * * * * Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need." WORDSWORTH'S _Happy Warrior._ Judgement came at last.

During my first holidays I had posted a letter from Lewis Lorraine to the uncle in India to whom he had before endeavoured to appeal.

The envelope did not lack stamps, but the address was very imperfect, and it was many months in reaching him.

He wrote a letter, which Lewis never received, Mr.Crayshaw probably knew why.

But twelve months after that Colonel Jervois came to England, and he lost no time in betaking himself to Crayshaw's.