CHAPTER XII.—Continued.

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CHAPTER Xll.— Continued.

There was a knock at the door, ami Bath hmldied into his ! i:rs. AJost^n answered tho knock perhonally. It was nothing more th.:n a servant with a flat parcel, or express letter, come by rail. Mostyn tore oh" the cover, and glanced hastily over the contct^. "Here's a nice thing," he said. "A letter hvm young fetenpard. the boy in the bank tlinl 1 told you «•!. lie has been reading I :it heart's trii.l in one ot the evening i;aj)ers. He is lull ot_gratiLiitle — coniouud his gratitude! — to;- all i did for him, but is greatly shocked and difctroMsod over that letter oi Seth Powell's. I'm! He dorr- nt quite insinuate that 1 placed ir in Cat hen re's hank-book, but that's whsit he means. Ho implores me to wiite ami tell the bank-manager about those two passbooks, and says /lie i.> prepared to face all the blame. Jf 1 don't do no at once he will be ompelled to move. The young iool is mad !" "A weak, impulsive kind ci boy, 1 :.uppw~c>;-" Bath asked. " That's it." A splendid tool, if you don't trust him too lar." "Then he'll £,peak, Bath said with decision. "I know ih.it hyi-Jenml disposition. And if ho doeb «p--ak, Mos,jtyn, you and I—you1 — you and i "