doctor but i don t ff � twist think it is exactly the tale for a practised police officer nevertheless why not demanded rose because my pretty cross replied the doctor because viewed with their eyes there are many ugly about it he can only prove the parts that look iu and none of those that look well confound the fellows they will have the why and the wherefore and will take nothing for granted on his own showing you see he has been the companion of thieves for some time past he has been carried to a on a charge of picking a gentleman s pocket he has been taken away forcibly from that gentleman s house to a place which he cannot describe or point out and of the of which he has not the remotest idea he is down to by men who seem to have taken a violent fancy to him whether he will or no and is put through a � window to rob a house and then just at the very moment when he is going to alarm the inmates and so do the very thing that would set him all to rights there rushes into the a dog of a half bred butler and shoots him as if on purpose to prevent his doing any good for don t you see au this i see it of course replied rose smiling at the doctor s but still i do not see anything in it to j the poor child no replied the doctor of course not bless bright eyes of your sex they never see whether for good or bad more than one side of any question and that always the one which first presents itself to them having given vent to this result of experience the doctor put his hands into his pockets and walked up and down the room with even greater rapidity than before the more i think of it said the doctor the more i � � that it will occasion endless trouble and difficulty if we these men in possession of the boy s real story i am certain it will not be believed and even if they can do nothing to him in the end still the dragging it forward and gi to all the doubts that will be cast upon it interfere materially with your benevolent plan of him from misery oh what is to be done cried rose dear dear why did they send for these people twist why indeed exclaimed mrs would not liave liad them here for the world all i know is said mr at last sitting down with a kind of desperate calmness that we must try and carry it off with a bold face the object is a good one and that must be our excuse the boy has strong symptoms of fever upon him and is in no condition to be talked to any more that s one comfort we must make the best of it and if bad be the best it is no fault of ours come in well master said entering the room followed by his and making the door fast before he said any more this t a put up thing and what the devil s a put up thing demanded the doctor impatiently we call it a put up robbery ladies said turning to them as if he pitied their ignorance but had a contempt for the doctor s when the servants is in it nobody suspected them in this case said mrs likely not ma am replied but they might have been in it for all that more on that account said we find it was a town hand said continuing his report for the style of work is first rate j pretty indeed it is remarked in aa tone there was two of em in it continued and they had a boy with em that s plain from the size window that s all to be said at present we j lad that you ve got up stairs at once if you please perhaps they will take something to drink mrs said the doctor his face brightening as if some new thought had occurred to him oh to be sure exclaimed rose eagerly you shall have it immediately if you will why thank you miss said drawing his across his mouth it s dry work this sort of duty that s handy miss don t put yourself out of the way on our what shall it be asked the doctor the young lady to the a little drop of spirits master if it s all the same replied it s a cold ride fix m london ma am twist and i always find that spirits comes home warmer to tlie feelings this interesting communication was addressed to mrs who received it very graciously while it was being conveyed to her the doctor slipped out of the room ah said mr not holding his wine glass by the stem but grasping the bottom between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand and placing it in front a� his i have seen a good many pieces of business like this in my time ladies that crack down in the back lane at said mr assisting his s memory that was something in this way t it rejoined mr that was done by was you always gave that to him replied the family pet i teu you hadn t any more to do with it than i had get out retorted mr i know better do you mind that time when was robbed of his though what a start that was better than any novel i ever see what was that inquired anxious to any symptoms of good humour in the unwelcome visitors it was a robbery miss that hardly anybody would been down upon said this here means ma am interposed of course 