timus Jones?"

"He is with him, John. The two are always together."

"You would not mind giving my compliments to Mr. Jones, and telling him
that his bedroom is wanted?"

"His bedroom wanted! There are lots of bedrooms, and nobody to occupy
them."

"It's a hint that I want him to go; he'd understand that."

"Would it not be better to tell Augustus?" asked the lady, doubting much
her power to carry out the instructions given to her.

"He would tell Augustus. It is not, you see, any objection I have to Mr.
Jones. I have not the pleasure of his acquaintance. He is a most
agreeable young man, I'm sure; but I do not care to entertain an
agreeable young man without having a word to say on the subject.
Augustus does not think it worth his while even to speak to me about
him. Of course, when I am gone, in a month or so,--perhaps a week or
two,--he can do as he pleases."

"Don't, John!"

"But it is so. While I live I am master at least of this house. I cannot
see Mr. Jones, and I do not wish to have another quarrel with Augustus.
Mr. Merton says that every time I get angry it gives Sir William another
chance with the knife. I thought that perhaps you could do it." Then
Miss Scarborough promised that she would do it, and, having her
brother's health very much at heart, she did do it. Augustus stood
smiling while the message was, in fact, conveyed to him, but he made no
answer. When the lady had done he bobbed his head to signify that he
acknowledged the receipt of it, and the lady retired.

"I have got my walking-papers," he said to Septimus Jones ten minutes
afterward.

"I don't know what you mean."

"Don't you? Then you must be very thick-headed. My father has sent me
word that you are to be turned out. Of course he means it for me. He
does not wish to give me the power of saying that he sent me away from
the house,--me, whom he has so long endeavored to rob,--me, to whom he
owes so much for taking no steps to punish his fraud. And he knows that
I can take none, because he is on his death-bed."

"But you couldn't, could you, if he were--were anywhere else?"

"Couldn't I? That's all you know about it. Understand, however, that I
shall start to-morrow morning, and unless you like to remain here on a
visit to him, you had better go with me." Mr. Jones signified his
compliance with the hint, and so Miss Scarborough had done her work.

Mr. Scarborough, when thus left alone, spent his time chiefly in
thinking of the