e, and after all those passages in the
newspapers,--believing, as he knew they did, that he had stolen the
property,--would clamber up on the very wheels to look at him! The
clerk had been right in that.

"I don't mean it for any impertinence, Mr Jones; but wouldn't it be
better just to come in and to go out quiet in one of Mr Powell's
flies?"

"Very well," said Cousin Henry. "Let the fly come."

"I thought it would be best," said the clerk, taking cowardly
advantage of his success over the prostrate wretch. "What's the use
of a gentleman taking his own carriage through the streets on such an
occasion as this? They are so prying into everything in Carmarthen.
Now, when they see the Bush fly, they won't think as anybody
particular is in it." And so it was settled. The fly should be at
Llanfeare by two o'clock on the following day.

Oh, if he could but die! If the house would fall upon him and crush
him! There had not been a word spoken by that reptile of a clerk
which he had not understood,--not an arrow cast at him the sting of
which did not enter into his very marrow! "Oh, nothing, sir, to a
gentleman like you." The man had looked at him as he had uttered the
words with a full appreciation of the threat conveyed. "They've got
a rod in pickle for you,--for you, who have stolen your cousin's
estate! Mr Cheekey is coming for you!" That was what the miscreant
of a clerk had said to him. And then, though he had found himself
compelled to yield to that hint about the carriage, how terrible
was it to have to confess that he was afraid to be driven through
Carmarthen in his own carriage!

He must go into Carmarthen and face Mr Apjohn once again. That was
clear. He could not now send the will in lieu of himself. Why had he
not possessed the presence of mind to say to the clerk at once that
no further steps need be taken? "No further steps need be taken. I
have found the will. Here it is. I found it this very morning among
the books. Take it to Mr Apjohn, and tell him I have done with
Llanfeare and all its concerns." How excellent would have been the
opportunity! And it would not have been difficult for him to act his
part amidst the confusion to which the clerk would have been brought
by the greatness of the revelation made to him. But he had allowed
the chance to pass, and now he must go into Carmarthen!

At half-past two the following day he put himself into the fly.
During the morning he had taken the will out of the