Has any thing of an unpleasant nature passed between you and Wortley ?" The youth did not readily answer.

He seemed at a loss for a suitable reply.

At length he said that something disagreeable had indeed passed between him and Wortley.

He had had the misfortune to be connected with a man by whom Wortley conceived himself to be injured.

He had borne no part in inflicting this injury, but had nevertheless been threatened with ill treatment if he did not make disclosures which, indeed, it was in his power to make, but which he was bound, by every sanction, to withhold.