nged for this, sir, as sure as I am a magistrate,
and that sort of thing."

Unheeding this denunciation, Wolfe had made to the spot where rider and
horse lay blent together at the foot of the descent; and assisting the
latter to rise, bent down to examine the real effect of his violence.
"Methinks," said he, as he looked upon the hueless but still defying
features of the horseman, "methinks I have seen that face years
before,--but where? Perhaps my dreams have foretold me this."

Lord Ulswater was utterly senseless; and as Wolfe raised him, he saw
that the right side of the head was covered with blood, and that one arm
seemed crushed and broken. Meanwhile a carriage had appeared, was hailed
by Glumford, stopped; and on being informed of the circumstance and
the rank of the sufferer, the traveller, a single gentleman, descended,
assisted to raise the unhappy nobleman, placed him in the carriage, and,
obeying Glumford's instructions, proceeded slowly to Westborough Park.

"But the ruffian, the rebel, the murderer?" said Mr. Glumford, both
querulously and inquiringly, looking towards Wolfe, who, without having
attempted to assist his victim, stood aloof, with arms folded, and an
expression of sated ferocity upon his speaking features.

"Oh! as to him," quoth the traveller, stepping into his carriage, in
order to support the mangled man, "you, sir, and my valet can bring him
along with you, or take him to the next town, or do, in short, with him
just as you please, only be sure he does not escape; drive on, post-boy,
very gently." And poor Mr. Glumford found the muscular form of the stern
Wolfe consigned to the sole care of himself and a very diminutive man in
pea-green silk stockings, who, however excellently well he might perform
the office of valet, was certainly by no means calculated in physical
powers for the detention of a criminal.

Wolfe saved the pair a world of trouble and anxiety.

"Sir," said he, gravely, turning to Glumford, "you beheld the affray,
and whatever its consequences will do me the common justice of
witnessing as to the fact of the first aggressor. It will, however, be
satisfactory to both of us to seize the earliest opportunity of putting
the matter upon a legal footing, and I shall therefore return to W----,
to which town you will doubtless accompany me."

"With all my heart!" cried Mr. Glumford, feeling as if a mountain of
responsibility were taken from his breast. "And I wish to Heaven you