again to the drawing-room, Innocent just pausing to tell the maid
Rachel that she would prefer to unpack and arrange the contents of
her satchel--all her luggage,--herself; and in a very few minutes
the whole business was settled. Eager to prove her good faith to
the gentle lady who had so readily trusted her, she drew from her
bosom the envelope containing the bank-notes left to her by Hugo
Jocelyn, and, unfolding all four, she spread them out on the
table.

"You see," she said, "this is my little fortune! Please change one
of them and take the two months' rent and anything more you want--
please do!"

A faint colour flushed Miss Leigh's pale cheeks.

"No, my dear, no!" she answered. "You must not tempt me! I will
take exactly the two months' rent and no more; but I think you
ought not to carry this money about with you--you should put it in
a bank. We'll talk of this afterwards--but go and lock it up
somewhere now--there's a little desk in your room you could use--
but a bank would be safest. After dinner this evening I'll tell
you what I think you ought to do--you are so very young!"--and she
smiled--"such a young little thing! I shall have to look after you
and play chaperone!"

Innocent looked up with a sweet confidence in her eyes.

"That will be kind of you!" she said, and leaving the one bank-
note of a hundred pounds on the table, she folded up the other
three in their original envelope and returned them to their secret