court for mark you here mr david we could no doubt find some men of the who would swear to your but once they were in tho box we could no longer check their testimony and some word of your friend mr must certainly crop out which from what you have let fall i cannot think to be desirable well sir said i here is my way of it and i opened my plot to him but this would seem to involve my the man says he when i bad done i think indeed sir said i dear doctor cries he rubbing his brow dear doctor no mr david i am afraid your la i say nothing against your friend mr i know nothing against him and if i did � mark this mr david � it would be my duty to lay bands on bim now i it to you is it wise to meet he may have matters to his charge he may not told you all his name may not be even cries the lawyer twinkling for some of these fellows will pick up names by the roadside as another would gather i go in quest op my inheritance � you must be the judge sir said i but it was clear my plan had taken hold upon his fancy for he kept musing to himself till we were called to dinner and the company of mrs and that lady had scarce left us again to ourselves and a bottle of wine ere he was back on my proposal when and where was i to meet my friend mr j was i sure of mr t s discretion supposing we could catch the old fox would i consent to such and such a term of an agreement � these and the like questions he kept asking at long intervals while ho thoughtfully rolled his wine upon his tongue when i had answered all of th m seemingly to his contentment he fell into a still deeper muse even the being now then he got a sheet of paper and a pencil and set to work writing and weighing every word and at last touched a bell and had his clerk into the chamber said he i must have this written out fair against to night and when it is done you will be so kind as put on your hat and be ready to come along with this gentlemen and me for you will probably be wanted as a witness what sir cried i as soon as the clerk was gone are you to venture it why so it would appear says he filling his glass but let us speak no more of business the very sight of brings in my head a little droll matter of some years ago when i had made a with the poor at the cross of each had gone his t proper aud and when it came four o clock had been taking a glass and did not know his master and i who had forgot my was so blind them that i give you my word i did not know my own and thereupon he laughed heartily i said it was an odd and smiled out of but what held me all the afternoon in wonder he kept returning and dwelling on this story and telling it again with fresh details and laughter so that i began at last to be quite put oi countenance and feel ashamed for my friend s folly towards the time i had appointed with we bet ont from the house mr and i arm in arm and following behind with the deed in his pocket and a covered basket in his hand all through the town the lawyer was bowing right and left and continually being button by gentlemen on matters of or private business and i could see he was one greatly looked up to in the county at last we were clear of the houses and began to go along the side of the haven and towards the inn and the pier the scene of my misfortune i could not look upon the place without emotion recalling how many that had been there with me that day were now no more taken i could hope from the evil to come passed where i dared not follow him and the poor souls that bad gone down with the in her last plunge all these and the herself i had and come through these hardships and fearful i go in quest of my inheritance perils without my only thought should have been of gratitude and yet i could not behold the place without sorrow for others and a chill of recollected fear i was so thinking when upon a sudden mr cried out clapped his hand to his pockets and began to laugh why he cries if this be not a adventure i after all that i said i have forgot my glasses at that of course i understood the purpose of his anecdote and knew that if he had left his spectacles at home it had been done on purpose so that he might have the of s help without the awkwardness of him and indeed it was well thought upon for now suppose things to go the very worst how could swear to my friend s identity or how be made to bear evidence against myself for all that he had been a long while of out his want and had spoken to and recognised a good few persons as we came through the town and i had little doubt myself that he saw reasonably well as soon as we were past the where i recognised the landlord smoking his pipe in the door and was amazed to see him look no older mr changed the order of march walking behind with and sending me forward in the manner of a i 