Year: 1869

lodgings in Zebedee street.


did YOU call there?' ~ 2aas
| Yes; and heard from the landlady
that Mr.. Henthorn had been arrested


The counsel for the prosecution here
asked a question. Excuse me, Mr..
Blenkinsopp, was it not rather foolish
thing to trust such valuable property to
q total stranger a'ooa o-.5 e o.@s


"a Not when your have studied men and
their faces so long as I have. An hon.
est man carries his charactes in his
face G .Yga9 laaa
/ The matchmaker was called to prove.
that he sold the watch to Mr.. Blenkin-
sopp, about month previously.


A clerk from Mr.. Blenkinsopp's Office
was called to witness the numbers Of
the notes, which had been drawn from
the bank early on the day before the
robbery, and the mum bers entered in
his private pocket-book, according to
custom.


Mr.. Ebenezer Grant would gladly
have closed the trial at this stage, but
his patience was doomed TO further
trial.


An Inspector of the detective force
was called, and he gave evidence as to
the character of Mr. Ebenezer Grant,
and in the course OF it slight history
of the commercial travellers career
came to light. He was traveller; but
Il II e l. IL
to be found in the Directory. Before
he left the court, he was arrested on
more than one charge, and there was
some talk of indicting him for perjury.


John Henthorn was acquitted, Of
course, and he and little Lucy were in
vited, together with Edmund Carew, to
dine with old Mr. Blenkinsopp. And
then John Henthorn told his story. AT
ter receiving the watch and notes. he
remained at the Blue Boar in the hope
of hearing of some employment. While
waiting, he met Mr.. Ebenezer Grant,
who had been most affable and most
prodigal of his promise to get John en-
ployment John admitted that he was
very much taken with his companion.
and that he had confided too much in
him he showed him the watch and the
notes; and Mr.. Ebenezer Grant had ia
ken great deal of interest in the story,
and had examined the notes and the
watch, and pronounced On the quality
of both. He had endeavored to per
suade John to give them up to him 10
keep; he had declared he knew the old
gentleman quite well !; and when he
found that this task was unsuccessful, !,
he made hints that John did not under
stand then, but the meaning of which
he now understood fully, namely, that
they should go off with the money and
divide the spoils.


John then told more of his own his
tory. How his mother had died when
he was young, and his father only late
ly, leaving his sister and him self totally
unprovided for how they had sold the
little furniture in the cottage in which
they had lived, and had come up to
town to seek their fortune, and how all
| tuelT llCJle 1unO was Spent.


When the little dim er party broke up
I think every body went home happier.
Edmund Carew felt happier. 1t was
hot because he had made good start
in his profession, for he was hardly
aware of that; he had been interested in
the case, and had forgotten himself. It
was not because Mr.. Blenkinsopp had
compelled him to take on e Of the bank
notes as fee, declaring that the case
was his own, and Edmuad Carew his
barrister it was not because he had
made the acquaintance of the senior
partner of an influential firm of city
lawyers. l think the happy faces of the
brother and sister whom he had be-
friended made him feel happy; but this
1 know, that when he reached his lone.
ly chambers, they did not seem SO lone
ly as usual; fragrant memory seemed
to be present, a frail, fairy-like form
seemed to move about them and when
he fell asleep, he dreamed that light
little finger was laid upon his elbow and
the two little eager eyes were gazing
| into his. -.-zs. ..


Mr.. Blenkinsopp went home happier.
He was a lone old man. He had be-
neyolent heart; but he was odd. Peo-
pie thought him a stern old man but
they did not know the painful story of
his life; they did not know of the sweet
home he had when young, and how in
week the old home had been broken up
and he had been sent to the care of a
stern old aunt, full of precise kindness.
and sharp, prudent and saving ways !;
they did not know of the up hill fight
he had endured, nor yet how he had
/ forsaken many q nleasura and many a