th, and 'Arry was undisguisedly returning to
evil ways. For the former, it was suspected--a locked door prevented
certainty--that she had of late kept her bed the greater part of the
day; a servant who met her downstairs in the early morning reported that
she 'looked very bad indeed.' The case of the latter was as hard to deal
with. 'Arry had long ceased to attend his classes with any regularity,
and he was once more asserting the freeman's right to immunity from
day labour. Moreover, he claimed in practice the freeman's right to get
drunk four nights out of the seven. No one knew whence he got his money;
Richard purposely stinted him, but the provision was useless. Mr. Keene
declared with lamentations that his influence over 'Arry was at an end;
nay, the youth had so far forgotten gratitude as to frankly announce his
intention of 'knockin' Keene's lights out' if he were further interfered
with. To the journalist his 'lights' were indispensable; in no sense of
the word did he possess too many of them; so it was clear that he must
abdicate his tutorial functions. Alice implored her brother to come and
'do something.'

Richard, though a married man of only six weeks' standing, had troubles
altogether in excess of his satisfactions. Things were not as they
should have been in that earthly paradise called New Wanley. It was
not to be expected that the profits of that undertaking would be worth
speaking of for some little time to come, but it was extremely desirable
that it should pay its own expenses, and it began to be doubtful whether
even this moderate success was being achieved. Various members of the
directing committee had visited New Wanley recently, and Richard had
talked to them in a somewhat discouraging tone; his fortune was not
limitless, it had to be remembered; a considerable portion of old
Mutimer's money had lain in the vast Belwick concern of which he
was senior partner; the surviving members of the firm were under no
specified obligation to receive Richard himself as partner, and the
product of the realised capital was a very different thing from the
share in the profits which the old man had enjoyed. Other capital
Richard had at his command, but already he was growing chary of
encroachments upon principal. He began to murmur inwardly that the
entire fortune did not lie at his disposal; willingly he would have
allowed Alice a handsome portion; and as for 'Arry, the inheritance was
clearly going to be his r