"Not that I know of."

"He says so; and I believe his word on such a subject sooner than yours.
You are likely to quarrel without knowing it, and he is not. He thinks
that you know what has become of Mountjoy."

"Does he? Why should he think so, when I told him that I know nothing? I
tell you that I know absolutely nothing. I am ignorant whether he is
dead or alive."

"He is not dead," said the father.

"I suppose not; but I know nothing about him. Why your second son--"

"You mean my eldest according to law,--or rather my only son!"

"Why Augustus Scarborough," continued Harry Annesley, "should take upon
himself to suspect that I know aught of his brother I cannot say. He has
some cock-and-bull story about a policeman whom he professes to believe
to be ignorant of his own business. This policeman, he says, is anxious
to arrest me."

"To make you give evidence before a magistrate," said his father.

"He did not dare to tell me that he suspected me himself."

"There;--I knew you had quarrelled."

"I deny it altogether. I have not quarrelled with Augustus Scarborough.
He is welcome to his suspicions if he chooses to entertain them. I