act in concert; if you can not turn a man
inside out, I disown you; you are a discredit to your sex." He then
shook hands with all three of them, and rolled away.

"Jael," said Miss Carden, "oblige me by ringing the bell."

A servant entered.

"Not at home to any human creature," said the young lady.

The servant retired.

"And, if they see me at the window, all the worse--for THEM. Now, Mr.
Little?"

Henry complied, and told the whole story, with the exception of the
threat to his sweetheart; and passed two delightful hours. Who is
so devoid of egotism as not to like to tell his own adventures to
sympathizing beauty? He told it in detail, and even read them portions
of the threatening letters; and, as he told it, their lovely eyes seemed
on fire; and they were red, and pale, by turns. He told it, like a
man, with dignity, and sobriety, and never used an epithet. It was Miss
Carden who supplied the "Monsters!" "Villains!" "Cowards!" "Wretches!"
at due intervals. And once she started from her seat, and said she
could not bear it. "I see through it all," she cried. "That Jobson is
a hypocrite; and he is at the bottom of it all. I hate him; and Parkin
worse. As for the assassin, I hope God, who saw him, will punish him.
What I want to do is to kill Jobson and Parkin, one after another; kill
them--kill them--kill them--I'll tell papa."

As for Jael, she could not speak her mind, but she panted heavily, and
her fingers worked convulsively, and clutched themselves very tight at
last.

When he had done his narrative, he said sadly, "I despise these fellows
as much as you do; but they are too many for me. I am obliged to leave
Hillsborough."

"What, let the wretches drive you away? I would never do that--if I was
a man."

"What would you do, then?" asked Henry, his eye sparkling.

"Do? Why fight them; and beat them; and kill them, it is not as if they
were brave men. They are only cunning cowards. I'd meet cunning with
cunning. I'd outwit them somehow. I'd change my lodging every week, and
live at little inns and places. I'd lock up every thing I used, as well
as the rooms. I'd consult wiser heads, the editor of the Liberal, and
the Head of the police. I'd carry fire-arms, and have a bodyguard,
night and day; but they should never say they had frightened me out of
Hillsborough--if I was a man."

"You are all right," cried Henry. "I'll do all you advise me, and I
won't be driven out of this place. I love it. I'll