, If I didn't love you for your own sake — and I. do dearly love you, miss, ,if you'll excuse the liberty— l'm bound to love, you for the sake of your grand feyther. He ,was my first master, and a kind one. He gave me my first pair o' tops, tor, miss,- 1 can call to mind the day as well as if it was yesterday. Didn't I fancy myself a buck in 'erri !| Bates grinrVed and sparkled. at the thought of those first top-boots.- His poor old eyes, dim with. "year's of long service, twinkled with the memory of those departed vanities. -■ - '_ ' Bates,' cried, Vixen, looking afr.lii.rn .resolutely, '.'"I. insist;, upon, kno wins what reason Cap tain Winstanley alleged for sending you^waj/ .. ; ; 'He didn't allege nothing, miss : anc I 5 ain't\ agoing -to .tell .y ou ' what; ;h< said.' ' '* 'But* you 'must. '• I order/you totel ..me. You ,are P still my servant, remem Jbef 1. You jiaye always been a faith j u > servant', and lam sure you won't dis ' obey me at-the; "last.. 5 1 insist itpoi i knowing '■' what' Pa,fjtain Winstanle; said ; however insulting his words ma; have been to me,- they: willnot surpris , ' me or wpund me much.' 'There. : is n - love lost between him arid me;'

-... think- everybody knows that. -Don- I be l afraid of giving me pain. Bates;/ Np ■• thing the captain ?wnM s^^wojald^dp , that. I despise Miivvfoo irnuch.'^ : ; t 7 l I'm right down glad[' r q^thag miss: ; Go on a-despising> /6% W^ f- >:^ ou can't give it- him las |thiclfe ,as \he j(ie s serves. :. \ > '•. "; ; .K -.*-,- ■'■:■•-■ -fV". ■ .'. , (NpAvvßatesrwhatdid he^ayt ■: , '•> Hljsaid I was a old fopl,^miss^pr a - bid^rog s ue,;he in his mind which. I'd ' been^actin' as go between with you and Mr Vawdrey^ , erlcouragih' bf'ybu" to meet thf S^ un^ gentleman in-ypur rides; ■ anH|rriever ; .giving the.cap'en warning, as/yoii;tst,ep * father, of what was goii!' pn^behindjiis ; 'back.! • He^ sajd'it\was shamfeful, and - ypu was majcin' yourself thetaikjof the ; ; countyi and L was no b'ettei^ than 'I I shpuld be?fpr aiding and Ibettiri'bf ypu ] ,in /ypurself.. 