cope with the man if he had not been tied.

Little took her by the hands. "Oh, my poor Jael! What is the matter? Has
the blackguard been insulting you?" And, not waiting for an answer, gave
him a kick that made him howl again.

"Yes, kill him, the villain! he wanted to murder you. Oh, oh, oh!"

She could say no more, but became hysterical.

Henry supported her tenderly, and wiped the blood from her face; and as
several people came up, and a policeman, he gave the man in charge, on
Jael's authority, and he was conveyed to the station accordingly, he and
his bow.

They took Jael Dence to a chemist's shop, and gave her cold water and
salts: the first thing she did, when she was quite herself, was to seize
Henry Little's hand and kiss it with such a look of joy as brought tears
into his eyes.

Then she told her story, and was taken in a cab to the police-office,
and repeated her story there.

Then Henry took her to Woodbine Villa, and Grace Carden turned very pale
at Henry's danger, though passed: she wept over Jael, and kissed her;
and nobody could make enough of her.

Grace Carden looked wistfully at Henry and said, "Oh that I had a strong
arm to defend you!"

"Oh, Miss Grace," said Jael, "don't you envy me. Go away with him from
this wicked, murdering place. That will be a deal better than any thing
I can do for him."

"Ah, would to Heaven I could this minute!" said Grace, clinging tenderly
to his shoulder. She insisted on going home with him and sharing his
peril for once.

Hill was locked up for the night.

In the morning a paper was slipped into his hand. "Say there was no
arrow."

He took this hint, and said that he was innocent as a babe of any harm.
He had got a bow to repair for a friend, and he went home twanging it,
was attacked by a woman, and, in his confusion, struck her once, but did
not repeat the blow.

Per contra, Jael Dence distinctly swore there was an arrow, with two
white feathers and one black one, and that the prisoner was shooting at
Mr. Little. She also swore that she had seen him colloguing with another
man, who had been concerned in a former attempt on Mr. Little, and
captured, but had escaped from Raby Hall.

On this the magistrate declined to discharge the prisoner; but, as no
arrow could be found at present, admitted him to bail, two securities
fifty pounds each, which was an indirect way of imprisoning him until
the Assizes.

This attempt, though unsuccessful in one wa