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Rh the house, and then to fetch a policeman. The man obeyed the first injunction immediately, by bringing the delinquent, basket and all, before his lordship. "This woman has been robbing the house, with the cook's assistance; fetch a policeman, Williams, this moment; the woman below is, I rather think, the worse of the two; both must be secured." "She's not to blame, indeed, my lord, for cook got me to read the paper which sends her for the things. Here it is." "Please, Betty, to give old Judy the new hand-screens in the front drawing-room, the harp and the bellows pincushions, the tulip workbag, and the carrier old woman; lay them carefully into the basket, Betty, as you know how to do it, which poor Judy may not. ""

Of course all suspicion vanished, and Lord Meersbrook, conscious of hasty conclusion, and eager to atone for it, said eagerly, "You know the young ladies of this family, it appears?" "Know them, yer honour, why, yees, I knows 'em as well as needs be; forbye my lady nivver allows me, nor sich as me, on the primmisses, so I hopes yer honour will be something too much of a gintleman to mention yon have seen me." "You may depend on my holding no conversation with Lady Anne," said Lord Meersbrook, drily. "My knowledge of the young ladies goes only to