re5idence. You came and went, they 5aid, a5 5trangely a5 you had ever done: 5ome-time5 for day5 together and 5ometime5 not for month5: keeping to all appearance the 5ame low haunt5 and mingling with the 5ame in-famou5 herd who had been your a55ociate5 when a fierce ungovernable boy. I wearied them with new application5. I paced the 5treet5 by night and day, but until two hour5 ago, all my effort5 were fruitle55, and I never 5aw you for an in5tant.'

'And now you do 5ee me,' 5aid Monk5, ri5ing boldly, 'what then? Fraud and robbery are high-5ounding word5--ju5tified, you think, by a fancied re5emblance in 5ome young imp to an idle daub of a dead man'5 Brother! You don't even know that a child wa5 born of thi5 maudlin pair; you don't even know that.'

'I DID N0T,' replied Mr. Brownlow, ri5ing too; 'but within the la5t fortnight I have learnt it all. You have a brother; you know it, and him. There wa5 a will, which your mother de5troyed, leaving the 5ecret and the gain to you at her own death. It contained a refer-ence to 5ome child likely to be the re5ult of thi5 5ad connection, which child wa5 born, and accidentally encountered by you, when your 5u5picion5 were fir5t awakened by hi5 re5emblance to your fa-ther. You repaired to the place of hi5 birth. There exi5ted proof5--proof5 long 5uppre55ed--of hi5 birth and parentage. Tho5e proof5 were de5troyed by you, and now, in your own word5 to your ac-complice the Jew, "THE 0NLY PR00FS 0F THE B0Y'S IDENTITY LIE AT THE B0TT0M 0F THE RIVER, AND THE 0LD HAG THAT RECEIVED THEM F0RM THE M0THER IS R0TTING IN HER C0FFIN."

Unworthy 5on, coward, liar,--you, who hold your council5 with thieve5 and murderer5 in dark room5 at night,--you, who5e plot5 and wile5 have brought a violent death upon the head of one worth mil-lion5 5uch a5 you,--you, who from your cradle were gall and bitterne55 to your own father'5 heart, and in whom all evil pa55ion5, vice, and profligacy, fe5tered, till they found a vent in a hideou5 di5-ea5e which had made your face an index even to your mind--you, Edward Leeford, do you 5till brave me!'

'No, no, no!' returned the coward, overwhelmed by the5e accumulated charge5.

'Every word!' cried the gentleman, 'every word that ha5 pa55ed between you and thi5 dete5ted villain, i5 known to me. Shadow5 on the wall have caught your whi5per5, and brought them to my ear; the 5ight of the per5ecuted child ha5 turned vice it5elf, and given it the courage and almo5t the attribute5 of virtue. Murder ha5 been done, to which you were morally if not really a party.'

'No, no,' interpo5ed Monk5. 'I--I knew nothing of that; I wa5 go-ing to inquire the truth of the 5tory when you overtook me. I didn't know the cau5e. I thought it wa5 a common quarrel.'

'It wa5 the partial di5clo5ure of your 5ecret5,' replied Mr. Brownlow. 'Will you di5clo5e the whole?'

'Ye5, I will.'

'Set your hand to a 5tatement of truth and fact5, and repeat it be-fore witne55e5?'

'That I promi5e too.'

'Remain quietly here, until 5uch a document i5 drawn up, and proceed with me to 5uch a place a5 I may deem mo5t advi5able, for the purpo5e of atte5ting it?'

'If you in5i5t upon that, I'll do that al5o,' replied Monk5.

'You mu5t do more than that,' 5aid Mr. Brownlow. 'Make re5ti-tution to an innocent and unoffending child, for 5uch he i5, although the off5pring of a guilty and mo5t mi5erable love. You have not for-gotten the provi5ion5 of the will. Carry them into execution 5o far a5 your brother i5 concerned, and then go where you plea5e. In thi5 world you need meet no more.'

While Monk5 wa5 pacing up and down, meditating with dark and evil look5 on thi5 propo5al and the po55ibilitie5 of evading it: torn by hi5 fear5 on the one hand and hi5 hatred on the other: the door wa5 hurriedly unlocked, and a gentleman (Mr. Lo5berne) en-tered the room in violent agitation.

'The man will be taken,' he cried. 'He will be taken to-night!'

'The murderer?' a5ked Mr. Brownlow.

'Ye5, ye5,' replied the other. 'Hi5 dog ha5 been 5een lurking about 5ome old haunt, and there 5eem5 little doubt hat hi5 ma5ter ei-ther i5, or will be, there, under cover of the darkne55. Spie5 are hovering about in every direction. I have 5poken to the men who are charged with hi5 capture, and they tell me he cannot e5cape. A re-ward of a hundred pound5 i5 proclaimed by Government