h to do me an injury. It must be told, so come
along. Mr. Greenwood had better come also." Then he left the room, and
the two men followed him. They went away to the smoking-room, leaving
Mr. Grey with Miss Scarborough. "Am I to know nothing about it?" said
Miss Scarborough.

"Not from me, Miss Scarborough. You can understand, that I cannot tell
you a story which will require at every word that I should explain my
thorough disbelief in your brother. I have been very angry with him, and
he has been more energetic than can have been good for him."

"Ah me! you will have killed him among you!"

"It has been his own doing. You, however, had better go to him. I must
return to town this evening."

"You will stay for dinner?"

"No. I cannot stay for dinner. I cannot sit down with Mountjoy,--who has
done nothing in the least wrong,--because I feel myself to be altogether
opposed to his interests. I would rather be out of the house." So
saying he did leave the house, and went back to London by train that
afternoon.

The meeting that morning, which had been very stormy, cannot be given
word by word. From the moment in which the squire had declared his
purpose, the lawyer had expressed his disbelief in all that was said to
him. This Mr. Scarborough had at first taken very kindly; but Mr. Grey
clung to his purpose with a pertinacity which had at last beaten down
the squire's good-humor, and had called for the interference of Mr.
Merton. "How can I be quiet?" the squire had said, "when he tells me
everything I say is a lie?"

"It is a lie!" said Mr. Grey, who had lost all control of himself.

"You should not say that, Mr. Grey," said Merton.

"He should spare a man on his death-bed, who is endeavoring to do his
duty by his children," said the man who thus declared himself to be
dying.

"I will go away," said Mr. Grey, rising. "He has forced me to come here
against my will, and has known,--must have known,--that I should tell him
what I thought. Even though a man be dying, a man cannot accept what he
says on a matter of business such as this unless he believe him. I must
tell him that I believe him or that I do not. I disbelieve the whole
story, and will not act upon it as though I believed it." But even after
this the meeting was continued, Mr. Grey consenting to sit there and to
hear what was said to the end.

The purport of Mr. Scarborough's story will probably have been
understood by our readers. It was Mr. Scarboro