ight up to Lord Fawn, and met him beneath the trees.
He was still black and solemn, and was evidently brooding over his
grievance; but he bowed to her, and stood still as she approached
him. "My lord," said she, "I am very sorry for what happened last
night."

"And so was I,--very sorry, Miss Morris."

"I think you know that I am engaged to marry Mr. Greystock?"

"I cannot allow that that has anything to do with it."

"When you think that he must be dearer to me than all the world, you
will acknowledge that I couldn't hear hard things said of him without
speaking." His face became blacker than ever, but he made no reply.
He wanted an abject begging of unconditional pardon from the little
girl who loved his enemy. If that were done, he would vouchsafe his
forgiveness; but he was too small by nature to grant it on other
terms. "Of course," continued Lucy, "I am bound to treat you with
special respect in Lady Fawn's house." She looked almost beseechingly
into his face as she paused for a moment.

"But you treated me with especial disrespect," said Lord Fawn.

"And how did you treat me, Lord Fawn?"

"Miss Morris, I must be allowed, in discussing matters with my
mother, to express my own opinions in such language as I may think
fit to use. Mr. Greystock's conduct to me was--was--was altogether
most ungentlemanlike."

"Mr. Greystock is a gentleman."

"His conduct was most offensive, and most--most ungentlemanlike. Mr.
Greystock disgraced himself."

"It isn't true!" said Lucy. Lord Fawn gave one start, and then walked
off to the house as quick as his legs could carry him.

CHAPTER XXVIII

Mr. Dove in His Chambers

The scene between Lord Fawn and Greystock had taken place in Mr.
Camperdown's chambers, and John Eustace had also been present. The
lawyer had suffered considerable annoyance, before the arrival of the
two first-named gentlemen, from reiterated assertions made by Eustace
that he would take no further trouble whatsoever about the jewels.
Mr. Camperdown had in vain pointed out to him that a plain duty lay
upon him as executor and guardian to protect the property on behalf
of his nephew; but Eustace had asserted that, though he himself was
comparatively a poor man, he would sooner replace the necklace out of
his own property, than be subject to the nuisance of such a continued
quarrel. "My dear John; ten thousand pounds!" Mr. Camperdown had
said. "It is a fortune for a younger son."

"The boy