rom her lodger which made her think that the young woman would not
remain much longer with her. In the meantime there was nothing of
which she could complain. Carry insisted on her liberty to go out and
about the city alone; but the woman was of opinion that she did this
simply with the object of asserting her independence. After that the
necessary payment was made, and the Vicar returned to the Railway
Station. Of Sam he had learned nothing, and now he did not know where
to go for tidings. He still believed that the young man would come of
his own accord, if the demand for his appearance were made so public
as to reach his ear.

On that same day there was a meeting of the magistrates at
Heytesbury, and the two men who had been so cruelly fetched back from
San Francisco were brought before it. Mr. Gilmore was on the bench,
along with Sir Thomas Charleys, who was the chairman, and three other
gentlemen. Lord Trowbridge was in the court house, and sat upon the
bench, but gave it out that he was not sitting there as a magistrate.
Samuel Brattle was called upon to answer to his bail, and Jones, the
attorney appearing for him, explained that he had gone from home
to seek work elsewhere, alluded to the length of time that had
elapsed, and to the injustice of presuming that a man against whom no
evidence had been adduced, should be bound to remain always in one
parish,--and expressed himself without any doubt that Mr. Fenwick
and Mr. George Brattle, who were his bailsmen, would cause him to be
found and brought forward. As neither the clergyman nor the farmer
were in court, nothing further could be done at once; and the
magistrates were quite ready to admit that time must be allowed. Nor
was the case at all ready against the two men who were in custody.
Indeed, against them the evidence was so little substantial that a
lawyer from Devizes, who attended on their behalf, expressed his
amazement that the American authorities should have given them
up, and suggested that it must have been done with some view to a
settlement of the Alabama claims. Evidence, however, was brought
up to show that the two men had been convicted before, the one for
burglary, and the other for horse-stealing; that the former, John
Burrows, known as the Grinder, was a man from Devizes with whom the
police about that town, and at Chippenham, Bath, and Wells, were
well acquainted; that the other, Acorn, was a young man who had been
respectable, as a partne