. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . nees, and at lastopened the door. Down the stairs, then, with great state, Mr. Macshane ledthe elder lady, the married couple following; and havingseen them to the street, took an affectionate farewell of theparty, whom he vowed that he would come and see. Youcan walk the eighteen miles aisy between this and nightfall,said he. Walk I exclaimed Mr. Hayes. Why, havent we gotBall, and shall ride and tie all the way ? Madam ! cried Macshane, in a stern voice, hon
. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . nees, and at lastopened the door. Down the stairs, then, with great state, Mr. Macshane ledthe elder lady, the married couple following; and havingseen them to the street, took an affectionate farewell of theparty, whom he vowed that he would come and see. Youcan walk the eighteen miles aisy between this and nightfall,said he. Walk I exclaimed Mr. Hayes. Why, havent we gotBall, and shall ride and tie all the way ? Madam ! cried Macshane, in a stern voice, honorbefore everything. Did you not, in the presence of his wor-ship, vow and declare that you gave me that horse, and nowdye talk of taking it back again! Let me tell you, madam,that such paltry tliricks ill become a person of your yearsand respectability, and ought never to be x)layed with InsignTimothy JNIacshane. He waved his hat and strutted down the street; and Hayes, along with her bridegroom and mother-in-law, made the best of their way homeward on foot. ?25 CHAPTEE VII. WHICH EMBRACES A PERIOD OF SEVEN HE recovery of so consid-erable a portion of hisproperty from the clutchesof Brock Avas, as may beimagined, no trifling sourceof joy to that excellentyoung man, Count Gus-tavus Adolphus de Gal-genstein; and he was oftenknown to say, with mucharchness, and a properfeeling of gratitude to theFate which had ordainedthings so, that the robberywas, in reality, one of thebest things that couldhave happened to him:for, in event of Mr. Brocks not stealing the money, hisExcellency the Count would have had to pay the whole tothe Warwickshire Squire, who had won it from him at Avas enabled, in the present instance, to plead hisnotorious poverty as an excuse; and the Warwickshireconqueror got oif with nothing, except a very badly Avrittenautograph of the Counts, simply acknowledging the debt. This point his Excellency conceded with the greatestcandor; but
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