Nothing is amiss, Sir, I hope: you look strangely terrified; but I'll gowith you this instant.--0n that he led me by a little path to a walkplanted thick with elms; at one end of which was a bench, where weseated ourselves.--_Now_, Sir, exclaimed Mr. Morgan, you may _here_ deliverwhat you have to say with secrecy.--I don't recollect to have had thehonour of seeing _you_ before;--but I wait with impatience to beinform'd the occasion of this visit.

You are a friend, I presume, of Sir James Powis?

Yes, Sir, I am: he has _few_ of longer standing, and, as times go,_more_ sincere, I believe.--But what of that?--do you know any harm,Sir, of me, or of my friend?

God knows I do not;--but I am acquainted, Mr. Morgan, with anunfortunate circumstance relative to Sir James.

Sir James! Zounds, do speak out:--Sir James, to my knowledge, does notowe a shilling.

It is not money matters, Sir, that brought me here:--heaven grant itwas!