crown an he interfere, the fox-hearted, ill-conditioned animal! Yes, thither will we fare — and straightway, too.”

A servant entered with a smoking meal, disposed it upon a small deal table, placed the chairs, and took his departure, leaving such cheap lodgers as these to wait upon themselves. The door slammed after him, and the noise woke the boy, who sprang to a sitting posture, and shot a glad glance about him; then a grieved look came into his face and he murmured to himself, with a deep sigh, “Alack, it was but a dream, woe is me!” Next he noticed Miles Hendon’s doublet — glanced from that to Hendon, comprehended the sacrifice that had been made for him, and said, gently —

“Thou art good to me, yes, thou art very good to me.