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"I should sooner have endeavoured to deliver these articles, but that I knew not, till yesterday, that they had fallen to my care. I had left the inn, to follow, and seek Sir Jaspar Herrington; but having various papers and letters in my room, that I had not had time to collect, I obtained leave to take away the key with me, of the landlady, to whom I was well known,—for there, or in that neighbourhood, an irresistible interest has kept me, from the time that, through my groom, I had heard . . . who had been seen . . . at Bagshot . . . entering the Salisbury stage!—Yesterday, when I returned, to the inn, I first perceived these parcels."—

He stopt; but Juliet could not speak, could not look up; could pronounce no apology, nor enter into any explanation.

"Sir Jaspar Herrington," he continued, "whom I have just left, is still at Salisbury; but setting out for town. From him I learnt your immediate direction; but not knowing what might be

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