Strong's apartments, Bonner and I mounted au
troisieme to see this famous beauty. Another disappointment--only the
Chevalier Strong and a friend of his in the room: so we came away after
all without seeing the enchanting Fanny.

"'Je t'envoie mille et mille baisers. When will that horrid canvassing
be over? Sleeves are worn, etc. etc. etc.'"

After dinner the doctor was reading the Times. "A young gentleman I
attended when he was here some eight or nine years ago, has come into a
fine fortune," the doctor said. "I see here announced the death of John
Henry Foker, Esq., of Logwood Hall, at Pau, in the Pyrenees, on the 15th
ult."

CHAPTER LXVIII. In which the Major is bidden to Stand and Deliver

Any gentleman who has frequented the Wheel of Fortune public-house,
where it may be remembered that Mr. James Morgan's Club was held, and
where Sir Francis Clavering had an interview with Major Pendennis,
is aware that there are three rooms for guests upon the ground floor,
besides the bar where the landlady sits. One is a parlour frequented by
the public at large; to another room gentlemen in livery resort; and
the third apartment, on the door of which "Private" is painted, is that
hired by the Club of "The Confidentials," of which Messrs Morgan and
Lightfoot were members.

The noiseless Morgan had listened to the conversation between Strong and
Major Pendennis at the latter's own lodgings, and had carried away from
it matter for much private speculation; and a desire of knowledge
had led him to follow his master when the Major came to the Wheel of
Fortune, and to take his place quietly in the Confidential room, whilst
Pendennis and Clavering had their discourse in the parlour. There was
a particular corner in the Confidential room from which you could hear
almost all that passed in the next apartment; and as the conversation
between the two gentlemen there was rather angry, and carried on in a
high key, Morgan had the benefit of overhearing almost the whole of
it and what he heard, strengthened the conclusions which his mind had
previously formed.

"He knew Altamont at once, did he, when he saw him in Sydney? Clavering
ain't no more married to my Lady than I am! Altamont's the man:
Altamont's a convict; young Harthur comes into Parlyment, and the
Gov'nor promises not to split. By Jove, what a sly old rogue it is, that
old Gov'nor! No wonder he's anxious to make the match between Blanche
and Harthur: why, she'll