ned
at the commencement of this chapter.

During the previous period however many important events had occurred.
Lord Marney had placed himself in communication with Mr Hatton, who had
soon become acquainted with all that had occurred in the muniment room
of Mowbray Castle. The result was not what he had once anticipated;
but for him it was not without some compensatory circumstances. True
another, and an unexpected rival, had stepped on the stage with whom
it was vain to cope, but the idea that he had deprived Sybil of her
inheritance, had ever, since he had became acquainted with her, been the
plague-spot of Hatton's life, and there was nothing that he desired more
ardently than to see her restored to her rights, and to be instrumental
in that restoration. How successful he was in pursuing her claim, the
reader has already learnt.

Dandy Mick was rewarded for all the dangers he had encountered in the
service of Sybil, and what he conceived was the vindication of
popular rights. Lord Marney established him in business, and Mick took
Devilsdust for a partner. Devilsdust having thus obtained a position
in society and become a capitalist, thought it but a due homage to the
social decencies to assume a decorous appellation, and he called himself
by the name of the town where he was born. The firm of Radley, Mowbray,
and Co., is a rising one; and will probably furnish in time a crop
of members of Parliament and Peers of the realm. Devilsdust married
Caroline, and Mrs Mowbray became a great favorite. She was always
perhaps a little too fond of junketting but she had a sweet temper and
a gay spirit, and sustained her husband in the agonies of a great
speculation, or the despair of glutted markets. Julia became Mrs Radley,
and was much esteemed: no one could behave better. She was more orderly
than Caroline, and exactly suited Mick, who wanted a person near him
of decision and method. As for Harriet, she is not yet married. Though
pretty and clever, she is selfish and a screw. She has saved a good deal
and has a considerable sum in the Savings' Bank, but like many heiresses
she cannot bring her mind to share her money with another. The great
measures of Sir Robert Peel, which produced three good harvests,
have entirely revived trade at Mowbray. The Temple is again open.
newly-painted, and re-burnished, and Chaffing Jack has of course
"rallied" while good Mrs Carey still gossips with her neighbours
round her well-stored stall