tion so readily. However that may be, certain things before surmised became assured fa_Ls in my mind, and a quaint bond of eyttpnßay became at once established between me and i my companion.

" Miss Ray,"' 1 said, " what do you think of a man who, having been abroad for fifteen years, has the impudence to come home with out a shilling in his pocket? Oi_ht he not to