A BRAND FROM THE BURNING! Little suspecting the interest which his movements were causing elsewhere, Jeffreys, on the appointed Wednesday, presented himself at Messrs.

Wilkins & Wilkins' office.

He was so much changed by eight months' misery and privation that no ordinary acquaintance would have recognised in the broken-down, haggard man who entered the office the once robust and stalwart librarian of Wildtree.

Even Percy would have had to look at him twice to make sure.
Mr Wilkins looked up curiously at his visitor.
"Ah," said he, "you have called in reference to that advertisement about Gerard Forrester.

Quite so.