"Meaning me?" observeil Mr.Moffatt,
his hiqies again reviving. "We will go
to-morrow, Xed ; it is a matter that I
cannot delay an hour unnecessarily."
Xext morning found Mr. Moffatt and
his two sous afloat with Batiks; and
Neil, watching his father closely, saw
how greatly the scene of the weir and
its turbulent waters affected him, al
though it was so many years since the
event had occurred w hich had thrown
its shadow over the whole of that period.
When properly moored, Mr. MotTatt's
imnatienee being wrought to the high-
est, he broke" the subject at once, aud
was induced, as the best plan of getting
at the facts which Banks could render,
to tell him he knew the gentleman sup
posed to have been drowned, and that
he was alive, If not well. Banks' de
light at this revelation was great, so
uulKvuiuled. indeed, and expressed in
such grateful and vivid terms, that it
even exceeded that of Mr. Moffat, who
beiran to see plainly that this manifesta
tion closely concerned his own happi
ness. Banks, therefore, now having no
longer any cause for taciturnity, related
all he knew of the occurrence. But we
will let him tell Ins own story, almost
in his own words.
