CHAPTER X.SPURS TO THE RELUCTANT.
Before Mr.Caryll left White's--which he did at a comparatively early hour, that he might be at home to receive Lord Rotherby's friends--not a man present but had offered him his services in the affair he had upon his hands.

Wharton, indeed, was not to be denied for one; and for the other Mr.Caryll desired Gascoigne to do him the honor of representing him.
It was a fine, dry night, and feeling the need for exercise, Mr.Caryll set out to walk the short distance from St.James's Street to his lodging, with a link-boy, preceding him, for only attendant.

Arrived home, he was met by Leduc with the information that Sir Richard Everard was awaiting him.

He went in, and the next moment he was in the arms of his adoptive father.
Greetings and minor courtesies disposed of, Sir Richard came straight to the affair which he had at heart.

"Well?
How speeds the matter ?" Mr.Caryll's face became overcast.