th after a quiet
fashion, though she is not like to be a strong woman at the best."

"Oh, I am so glad, Uncle!" said Pandora, though the tears _were_ still
in her eyes.

"That Roger Hall is a grand fellow, Tom. He hath kept the works a-going
as if you had been there every day. He saith not much, but he can do
with the best."

"Ay, he was ever a trustworthy servant," answered Mr Roberts. "'Tis a
marvel to me, though, that he was never arrest."

"That cannot I conceive!" said the Justice warmly. "The man hath put
his head into more lions' mouths than should have stocked Daniel's den;
and I know Dick o' Dover set forth warrants for his taking. It did seem
as though he bare a charmed life, that no man could touch him."

"He is not the first that hath so done," said Mistress Grena.
"Methinks, Master Justice, there was another warrant sent out first--`I
am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee.' There have
been divers such, I count, during Queen Mary's reign."

"Maybe, Mistress Grena, maybe; I am not o'er good in such matters. But
I do think, Brother Tom, you should do well to show your sense of Hall's
diligence and probity."

"That will I do, if God permit. But there is another to whom I owe
thanks, Anthony, and that is yourself, to have saved my lands and goods
for me."

"Well, Tom," answered the Justice comically, "you do verily owe me
thanks, to have eaten your game, and worn out your furniture, and spent
your money, during an whole year and an half. Forsooth, I scarce know
how you may fitly show your gratefulness toward me for conferring so
great benefits upon you."

Mr Roberts laughed.

"Ah, it pleaseth you to jest, Anthony," he replied, "but I know full
well that had you refused my request, 'tis a mighty likelihood I had had
neither house nor furniture to come to."

"Nay, I was not such a dolt! I marvel who would, when asked to spend
another man's money, and pluck his fruit, and lie of his best bed! But
I tell thee one thing, Tom--I'll pay thee never a stiver of rent for
mine house that I hold of thee--the rather since I let it to this new
doctor for two pound more, by the year, than I have paid to thee. I'm
none so sure that he'll be ready to turn forth; and if no, happy man be
my dole, for I must go and sing in the gutter, without Jack will give me
a corner of his kennel."

"Jack's owner will be heartily glad to give you a corner of his kennel,
Brother Anthony, for so long t