hink of it, if you give me a lift wid ould Jemmy, I'll give you one
there. The bailiff's berth is jist the thing for me; not havin' any
family of my own, you see I could have no objection to live in the
Grange, as their bailiff always did; but, aren't you afeard to tackle
yourself to that divil's clip, Sarah?"

"Well, I don't know," replied the other; "I grant it's a hazard, by all
accounts."

"An' yet" continued Rody, "she's a favorite with every one; an' indeed
there's not a more generous or kinder-hearted creature alive this day
than she is. I advise you, however, not to let her into your saicrets,
for if it was the knockin' of a man on the head and that she knew it,
and was asked about it, out it would go, rather than she'd tell a lie."

"They say she's handsomer than _Gra Gal_ Sullivan," said Hanlon; "and I
think myself she is."

"I don't know; it's a dead tie between them; however, I can give you
a lift with her father, but not with herself, for somehow, she doesn't
like a bone in my skin."

"She and I made a swop," proceeded Hanlon, "some time ago, that 'ud take
a laugh out o' you: I gave her a pocket-hand-kerchy; and she was to give
me an ould Tobaccy-Box--but she says she can't find it, altho' I
have sent for it, an' axed it myself several times. She thinks the
step-mother has thrown it away or hid it somewhere."

Body looked at him inquiringly.

"A Tobaccy-Box," he exclaimed; "would you like to get it?"

"Why," replied Hanlon, "the poor girl has nothing else to give, an' I'd
like to have something from her, even if a ring never was to go on us,
merely as a keepsake."

"Well, then," replied Duncan, with something approaching to solemnity
in his voice, "mark my words--you promise to give me a lift for the
drivership with old Jemmy and the two Dicks?"

"I do."

"Well, then, listen: If you will be at the Grey Stone to-morrow night at
twelve o'clock--midnight--I'll engage that Sarah will give you the box
there."

"Why, in troth, Eody, to tell you the truth if she could give it to me
at any other time an' place, I'd prefer it. That Grey Stone is a wild
place to be in at midnight."

"It is a wild place; still it's there, an' nowhere else, that you must
get the box. And now that the bargain's made, do you think it's
thrue that this old Hendherson"--here he looked very cautiously about
him--"has as much money as they say he has?"

"I b'lieve he's very rich."

"It is thrue that he airs the bank notes