If it is all the same to
you, I should prefer to limit my assistance to advice. I am anxious to
help, but I am a man of regular habits, which I do not wish to disturb.
Did you ever read 'Footpaths of Fate,' in the Nosegay series, sir? I've
only just remembered it, and it contains the most helpful suggestion of
the lot. There had been a misunderstanding between the heroine and the
hero--their names have slipped my mind, though I fancy his was Cyril--and
she had told him to hop it...."
"To what?"
"To leave her for ever, sir. And what do you think he did?"
"How the deuce do I know?"
"He kidnapped her little brother, sir, to whom she was devoted, kept him
hidden for a bit, and then returned him, and in her gratitude all was
forgotten and forgiven, and never...."
"I know. Never had the bells of the old village church...."
"Rung out a blither peal. Exactly, sir. Well, there, if you will allow
me to say so, you are, sir! You need seek no further for a plan of
action."
"Miss Bennett hasn't got a little brother.
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