Every move he made was checked 'before,, so to say, it could well be made; every bib of information he, by dint of much care and labor-, obtained, was no sooner in his pos session than it became known to the opposition? lawyers, Tinker and Teal. After striving to fathom this inexplicable annoyance for some time, and to parry it in the best, way he could, Mr Dunn, wearied- outi mortified, de jected, had come to the inevitable conclusion that he was being betrayed; though how it could be done, or ;Vom wHt-qrirter, he was at a loss to conceive. "The tY'ng seems e]^r enough," spoke Robe..; too hasti'y, r'ter listening ;" the paivies from whom you get your information must hand it eqvilly to>the other side." " No," seid Mr Dunn* " some of the things that have become known to tl em are confined to myself absolutely. Not a sou 1 , else in the world has had the slighest cognizance of them. The ve.y thoughts of my tuind^-and I know I am not exaggerating in saying it — have been handed over to Tinker and Teal. Regular tinkers they are, between ourselves: would stoop to any diriy work, r ots of money, though; can. bribe away right and left, and do do it " " Why.howcan they get at your thoughts?" cried Robert. " That's the question, Wyatt. My abso lutely unbreathed' thoughts of course they cannot get at ; ; but.they do get them- as soon as they are embodied on paper. It is taking rather too much>out of me, just now, in- the shape of peace." " I'm sure the way he tosses and turns about in bed at night, and gets up before it's well morning, light, because he ca»'t ? { e, is enougi to throw him into a fever,'" grumbled Mrs Dunn, snatching up her gown- from the fury of tbs-flre, and putting down over it her watered siHc apron. " I get ap because I bafe!i%k to do, Mar garet, said Mr Dunn." " A\ndi*f you don't mind,, it will end in a fever,'* she concluded; "things have never been like this aU the years that we've been married." %t Because affairs have never been like this, tpok here, I'll tell you the last move in the drama," continued he; "and -it is puzzling iiruy very wits out of me. 