anxious I have been not to be wrong. But things have been wrong,
and I could not put them right."

On the next morning they packed her into the little four-wheeled
phaeton, and so she left Bullhampton. "I believe her to be as good a
girl as ever lived," said the Vicar; "but all the same, I wish with
all my heart that she had never come to Bullhampton."

CHAPTER LXVI.

AT THE MILL.

The presence of Carry Brattle was required in Salisbury for the trial
of John Burrows and Lawrence Acorn on Wednesday the 22nd of August.
Our Vicar, who had learned that the judges would come into the city
only late on the previous evening, and that the day following their
entrance would doubtless be so fully occupied with other matters as
to render it very improbable that the affair of the murder would
then come up, had endeavoured to get permission to postpone Carry's
journey; but the little men in authority are always stern on such
points, and witnesses are usually treated as persons who are not
entitled to have any views as to their own personal comfort or
welfare. Lawyers, who are paid for their presence, may plead other
engagements, and their pleas will be considered; and if a witness be
a lord, it may perhaps be thought very hard that he should be dragged
away from his amusements. But the ordinary commonplace witness must
simply listen and obey--at his peril. It was thus decided that Carry
must be in Salisbury on the Wednesday, and remain there, hanging
about the Court, till her services should be wanted. Fenwick, who had
been in Salisbury, had seen that accommodation should be provided for
her and for the miller at the house of Mrs. Stiggs.

The miller had decided upon going with his daughter. The Vicar did
not go down to the mill again; but Mrs. Fenwick had seen Brattle, and
had learned that such was to be the case. The old man said nothing to
his own people about it till the Monday afternoon, up to which time
Fanny was prepared to accompany her sister. He was then told, when he
came in from the mill for his tea, that word had come down from the
vicarage that there would be two bed-rooms for them at Mrs. Stiggs'
house. "I don't know why there should be the cost of a second room,"
said Fanny; "Carry and I won't want two beds."

Up to this time there had been no reconciliation between the miller
and his younger daughter. Carry would ask her father whether she
should do this or that, and the miller would answer her as a