ave the same feelings as the
Intendant, or even feelings as strong as your own."

"I cannot bear the idea of accepting anything from them or their
instruments, Humphrey; nor, indeed, could I leave my sisters."

"On that score you may make your mind easy;--Pablo and I are quite
sufficient for the farm, or anything else we may want to do. If you can
be more useful elsewhere, have no scruple in leaving us. If the king
was to come over and raise an army, you would leave us, of course; and I
see no reason why, if an eligible offer is made you, you should not do
it now. You and your talents are thrown away in this forest, and you
might serve the king and the king's cause better by going into the world
and watching the times than you ever can by killing his venison."

"Certainly," replied Edward, laughing, "I do not much help his cause by
killing his deer, that must be admitted; all I shall say is this,--if
anything is offered to me which I can accept without injury to my
feelings and my honour, I shall not decline it, provided that I may, by
accepting it, prove of service to the king's cause."

"That is all I wish, Edward. And now I think we had better go to bed."

The next day they dug up the iron chest and the box into which Humphrey
had put all the papers he had collected together. Edward opened the
iron chest, and found in it a considerable quantity of gold in bags, and
many trinkets and jewels which he did not know the value of. The papers
he did not open, but resolved that they should be given to the
Intendant, for Edward felt that he could trust in him. The other boxes
and trunks were also opened and examined, and many other articles of
apparent value discovered.

"I should think all these jewels worth a great deal of money, Humphrey,"
said Edward; "if so, all the better for poor little Clara. I am sorry
to part with her, although we have known her so short a time; she
appears to be such an amiable and affectionate child."

"That she is; and certainly the handsomest little girl I ever saw. What
beautiful eyes! Do you know that on one of her journeys to Lymington
she was very nearly taken by a party of gipsies? And by what Pablo can
make out, it would appear that it was by the party which he belonged
to."

"I wonder at her father's permitting her to go alone such a distance."

"Her father could not do otherwise. Necessity has no law. He could
trust no other person, so he put her in boy's clothes th