capes in this world show how true 't is
That gold is the only Elixir Salutis.
Derry down, Derry down.'

'All you who to swindling conveniently creep,
Ne'er piddle; by thousands the treasury sweep
Your safety depends on the weight of the sum,
For no rope was yet made that could tie up a plum.
Derry down, etc.'"

[From a ballad called "The Knight and the Prelate."]

"Bravissimo, little Brad!--you are quite a wit! See what it is to have
one's faculties called out. Come, a toast to old England, the land
in which no man ever wants a farthing who has wit to steal it,--'Old
England forever!' your rogue is your only true patriot!" and Crauford
poured the remainder of the bottle, nearly three parts full, into a
beaker, which he pushed to Bradley. That convivial gentleman emptied it
at a draught, and, faltering out, "Honest Sir John!--room for my Lady
Bradley's carriage," dropped down on the floor insensible.

Crauford rose instantly, satisfied himself that the intoxication was
genuine, and giving the lifeless body a kick of contemptuous disgust,
left the room, muttering, "The dull ass, did he think it was on his
back that I was going to ride off? He! he! he! But stay, let me feel my
pulse. Too fast by twenty strokes! One's never sure of the mind if one
does not regulate the body to a hair! Drank too much; must take a powder
before I start."

Mounting by a back staircase to his bedroom, Crauford unlocked a chest,
took out a bundle of clerical clothes, a large shovel hat, and a huge
wig. Hastily, but not carelessly, induing himself in these articles of
disguise, he then proceeded to stain his fair cheeks with a preparation
which soon gave them a swarthy hue. Putting his own clothes in the
chest, which he carefully locked (placing the key in his pocket), he
next took from a desk on his dressing-table a purse; opening this,
he extracted a diamond of great size and immense value, which, years
before, in preparation of the event that had now taken place, he had
purchased.

His usual sneer curled his lip as he gazed at it. "Now," said he, "is
it not strange that this little stone should supply the mighty wants
of that grasping thing, man? Who talks of religion, country, wife,
children? This petty mineral can purchase them all! Oh, what a bright
joy speaks out in your white cheek, my beauty! What are all human charms
to yours? Why, by your spell, most magical of talismans, my y