there will be no occasion for you to appear in it at all, but leave
it altogether for the authorities to prove the Sydney case against
him; it will only be necessary for the constables who got up the
other case against him to prove his sentence, and for the reports
of the Governor of the jail to be read. There will be no getting
over that, and he will be hung as a matter of course. It will be
a terrible thing for his unhappy father."

"I do not think that he is likely to come to know it, sir; the shock
of the affair yesterday and that of this morning have completely
prostrated him, and Dr. Holloway, who was up with him before you
arrived, thinks that there is very little chance of his recovery."

When the magistrate had left, Mark sent a request to Mrs. Cunningham
that she would come down for a few minutes. She joined him in the
drawing room.

"Thank you for coming down," he said quietly. "I wanted to ask how
you were, and how Millicent is."

"She is terribly upset. You see, the Squire was the only father
she had ever known; and had he been really so he could not have
been kinder. It is a grievous loss to me also, after ten years of
happiness here; but I have had but little time to think of my own
loss yet, I have been too occupied in soothing the poor girl. How
are you feeling yourself, Mark?"

"I don't understand myself," he said. "I don't think that anyone
could have loved his father better than I have done; but since I
broke down when I first went to my room I seem to have no inclination