important service you have this day rendered him."
"To have served your cousin is a sufficient reward in itself—Good evening, gentlemen," continued Earnscliff, "I see most of your party are already on their way to Ellieslaw."
Then saluting Mareschal with courtesy, and the rest of the party with indifference, Earnscliff turned his horse and rode towards the Heughfoot, to concert measures with Hobbie Elliot for farther researches after his bride, of whose restoration to her friends he was still ignorant.
"There he goes," said Mareschal, "he is a fine, gallant, young fellow, upon my soul, and yet I should like well to have a thrust with him on the green turf. I was reckoned at college nearly his equal with the foils, and I should like to try him at sharps."
"In my opinion," answered Sir Frederick Langley, "we have done very ill in having suffered him, and those men who
