On Friday last I went to Holderness, N.H., to the Asquam House; I had been asked by Mrs. T. to join her party.

About five and twenty years ago there lived, as housemaid at St. Wilfrid's presbytery, in this town, one Alice Holderness.

But such a site as the castle hill could not long remain idle in the stormy days of the Norman Kings, and William le Gros, Earl of Albemarle and Lord of Holderness, recognising the natural defensibility of the rock, built the massive walls which have withstood so many assaults, and even now form the most prominent feature of Scarborough.

After the king's landing at Holderness in 1471 the king-maker, declining a contest, occupied the town for the Lancastrians, and Edward passing on to London soon after turned and defeated the earl at Barnet.

He has married his eldest daughter to Sir James Lowther and is himself, from being Groom of the Stole, become Secretary of StateLord Holderness being removed with very little ceremony indeed, but with a pension, to make room for him.

"Lucas Holderness, the author of 'The Furnace of Sin' and other stories.

The following day Mr. Lucas Holderness received his cheque for a guinea.

"You pay it in," said Mr. Lucas Holderness, "if you've any doubts about it.

" "All right, wasn't it?" said Mr. Lucas Holderness in a casual tone two days later.

Mr. Lucas Holderness, who had been eyeing the grocer's stock with a curious intensity, immediately became animated and bought a tin of salmon.