To be brief, it was from the young lady to whom he had been engaged to be married, and who on his loss of fortune had jilted him.

Now she seemed to have changed her mind again, and, although she did not mention the matter, it is perhaps not uncharitable to suppose that the news of the death of the inconvenient child had something to do with her decision.
"Have you answered this ?" asked Higgs.
"No," answered Orme, setting his mouth.

"I have not answered, and I am not going to answer it, either in writing or in person.

I intend to start to-morrow for Mur and to travel as far on that road as it pleases fate to allow, and now I am going to look at the rock sculptures by the cataract." "Well, that's flat," said Higgs after he had departed, "and for my part I am glad of it, for somehow I think he will be a useful man among those Fung.

Also, if he went I expect that the Sergeant would go too, and where should we be without Quick, I should like to know ?" Afterwards I conversed with the said Quick about this same matter, repeating to him my opinions, to which the Sergeant listened with the deference which he was always kind enough to show to me.
"Begging your pardon, sir," he said, when I had finished, "but I think you are both right and wrong.