' Back to London,' he said", and ga'vjo' '-her- arid: she 'got, u pi with out a word and slimk ? pff to, .the statioji followed by' a mob of people."* She's ih tlie )ref reshmcht; room; no vy , '-jbut; Gqprge sent, word to say that they ought riot to serve her with any-'cMrik!'* j , 'What, ti me lloes .the next train go. ,— 7<is, does ;it>iiot^^ j. y; ':Yes, sir.'-i----'^ v*; :',d ,_?....;.. •.• y ■ y.y. j keep an eye ii pon , that ; jwom an,' arid when the ti nic comes, get me a first class return '" ticket --for 'London. [I shall go np myself ■ and , give her. in charge there, Here r is- some nionejj,' and he gave him a< five-pound note,

i and look here, Jones, you need not trouble about, the. change'  ;.„..,_ .,, Thank you, sir, Tra sure,' said Jonos/tp whom, his salary being a guinea a- week, on which he supported a wife and family, a gift of L 4 was - sudden wealth. ' Don't thank me but do as I tell you. I will be down at the station afc 7.10. Meet me outside and give me the ticket. : That will do.V ,; When Jones had gone Mr "Quest sat down to think. - : .'■ So it was George who had loosed this woman on him, and that was the meaning of his ' mysterious warning. How had he found her? That did not matter, he had found her, and in re venge for the action, taken, against the de la Molle family he had brought her here to denounce ; him. It had; been cleverly managed, too., Mr. Quest re flected to himself that he should never have given the man. credit for, the brains. Well, that was what came of underrating people. And so this was the end of jill his ■ hopes, ambitions, shifts and struggles ! ' The story would be in every paper in England before another 24 hours were over, headed ' Remarkable? occurrence at Boisingham. , Quarter Sessions. — Alleged bigamy of a solicitor.' No doubt, too, the Treasury would take it up and institute a prosecution. This was the end of his strivings after re spectability and the wealth that brings it. He had overreached himself. 