hey say, is nine points of
the law. In the usual way I ought, I presume, simply to do nothing, but
merely to take possession. The double story about the two marriages
ought to count for nothing,--and I should be as though no such plots had
ever been hatched. But they have been hatched, and other people know of
them. The creditors, I presume, can do nothing. You have all the bonds
in your possession. They may curse and swear, but will, I imagine, have
no power. I doubt whether they have a morsel of ground on which to raise
a lawsuit; for whether I or Augustus be the eldest son, their claims
have been satisfied in full. But I presume that Augustus will not sit
quiet. What ought I to do in regard to him? As matters stand at present
he will not get a shilling. I fear my father is too ill to make another
will. But at any rate he will make none in favor of Augustus. Pray tell
me what I ought to do; and tell me whether you can send any one down to
assist me when my father shall have gone."

"I will meddle no farther with anything in which the name of Scarborough
is concerned." Such had been Mr. Grey's first assertion when he received
Mountjoy's letter. He would write to him and tell him that, after what
had passed, there could be nothing of business transacted between him
and his father's estate. Nor was he in the position to give any advice
on the subjects mooted. He would wash his hands of it altogether. But,
as he went home, he thought over the matter and told himself that it
would be impossible for him thus to repudiate the name. He would
undertake no lawsuit either on behalf of Augustus or of Mountjoy. But he
must answer Mountjoy's letter, and tender him some advice.

During the long hours of the subsequent night he discussed the whole
matter with his daughter, and the upshot of his discussion was
this:--that he would withdraw his name from the business, and leave Mr.
Barry to manage it. Mr. Barry might then act for either party as he
pleased.

CHAPTER LVI.

SCARBOROUGH'S REVENGE.

All these things were not done at Tretton altogether unknown to Augustus
Scarborough. Tidings as to the will reached him, and then he first
perceived the injury he had done himself in lending his assistance to
the payment of the creditors. Had his brother been utterly bankrupt, so
that the Jews might have seized any money that might have come to him,
his father would have left no will in his favor. All that was now
intelligible to