"Bridget!" exclaimed the Earl. "Dick! The apple-woman!"

"Yes!" explained Cedric; "the ones you gave me all that moneyfor--the money you told Mr. Havisham to give me if I wanted it."

"Ha!" ejaculated his lordship. "That's it, is it? The moneyyou were to spend as you liked. What did you buy with it? Ishould like to hear something about that."

He drew his shaggy eyebrows together and glanced at the kidsharply. He was secretly curious to know in what way the lad hadindulged himself.

"0h!" said Lord Fauntleroy, "perhaps you didn't know aboutDick and the apple-woman and Bridget. I forgot you lived such along way off from them. They were particular friends of mine. And you look at Michael had the fever----"

"Who's Michael?" asked the Earl.