d a chaise to
Forest Hill. He had not written to his father to announce his arrival,
and it was late in the morning when the chaise drew up at his father's
door.

Jack stepped out and rang the bell. The servants who opened the door
did not know him; they were not the same as those he left.

"Where is Mr Easy?" demanded Jack.

"Who are you?" replied one of the men, in a gruff tone.

"By de powers, you very soon find out who he is," observed Mesty.

"Stay here, and I'll see if he is at home."

"Stay here! stay in the hall like a footman? What do you mean, you
rascal?" cried Jack, attempting to push by the man.

"Oh, that won't do here, master; this is Equality Hall; one man's as
good as another."

"Not always," replied Jack knocking him down. "Take that for your
insolence, pack up your traps, and walk out of the house to-morrow
morning."

Mesty in the meantime, had seized the other by the throat.

"What I do with this fellow, Massa Easy?"

"Leave him now, Mesty; we'll settle their account to-morrow morning. I
presume I shall find my father in the library."

"His father!" said one of the men to the other; "he's not exactly a chip
of the old block."

"We shall have a change, I expect," replied the other, as they walked
away.

"Mesty," cried Jack, in an authoritative tone, "bring those two rascals
back to take the luggage out of the chaise; pay the postilion, and tell
the housekeeper to show you my room and yours. Come to me for orders as
soon as you have done this."

"Yes, sir," replied Mesty. "Now come here, you damn blackguard, and
take tings out of chaise, or by de holy poker I choke your luff, both of
you."

The filed teeth, the savage look, and determination of Mesty, had the
due effect. The men sullenly returned and unloaded the chaise. In the
meantime, Jack walked into his father's study; his father was there--the
study was lighted up with argand lamps, and Jack looked with
astonishment. Mr Easy was busy with a plaster cast of a human head,
which he pored over, so that he did not perceive the entrance of his
son. The cast of the skull was divided into many compartments, with
writing on each; but what most astonished our hero was the alteration in
the apartment. The book-cases and books had all been removed, and in
the centre, suspended from the ceiling, was an apparatus which would
have puzzled any one, composed of rods in every direction, with screws
at the end of them, and also tub