That he did so I have no doubt, however Mr.Bulmer may have thought proper to disguise the circumstance in communication with you.

One circumstance, among others, stamps at once his character, and confirms me of the danger he apprehended by my return to Britain.

He found means, through a scoundrelly agent, who had made me the usual remittances from my father while alive, to withhold those which were necessary for my return from the Levant, and I was obliged to borrow from a friend." "Indeed ?" replied Jekyl.

"It is the first time I have heard of these papers--May I enquire where the originals are, and in whose custody ?" "I was in the East," answered Tyrrel, "during my father's last illness, and these papers were by him deposited with a respectable commercial house, with which he was connected.

They were enclosed in a cover directed to me, and that again in an envelope, addressed to the principal person in their firm." "You must be sensible," said Captain Jekyl, "that I can scarcely decide on the extraordinary offer which you have been pleased to make, of resigning the claim founded on these documents, unless I had a previous opportunity of examining them." "You shall have that opportunity--I will write to have them sent down by the post--they lie but in small compass." "This, then," said the Captain, "sums up all that can be said at present .-- Supposing these proofs to be of unexceptionable authenticity, I certainly would advise my friend Etherington to put to sleep a claim so important as yours, even at the expense of resigning his matrimonial speculation--I presume you design to abide by your offer ?" "I am not in the habit of altering my mind--still less of retracting my word," said Tyrrel, somewhat haughtily.
"We part friends, I hope ?" said Jekyl, rising, and taking his leave.
"Not enemies certainly, Captain Jekyl.