At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.

"Should we be any worse off than would be the case if this girl took it into her head to expose usif the facts which she could prove placed us side by side in an assize-court?" The womanclever, scheming, ambitiouswas silent.

"On 14th July 1833," we read in Cardinal Newman's Apologia, "Mr. Keble preached the assize sermon in the University Pulpit.

He was not a little proud, too, that he was the only person in the county who had the honour of her acquaintance, and yet was disinterested enough to regret that he led so secluded a life, and often lamented that nothing would induce her to show her elegant person on a racecourse, or to attend an assize ball, an assembly which was then becoming much the fashion.

Pending the assize trial, he baptises three unknown babes in Malbourne Church.

'Yer'll be took before the magistrates next week, an the assizes ull be in February, an yer'll get six monthsif yer don't get more.

He is fearful of being sheriff of the shire by instinct, and dreads the assize-week as much as the prisoner.