I wrote it out fair for him, and Sir Charles, with the air of a Cromwell, signed it.
'This is important, Sey,' he said. 'It had better be registered, for fear of falling into improper hands. Don't give it to Dobson; let 
Césarine took it as directed.Césarine take it over to Fowlis in the dog-cart.'
It is the drawback of Seldon that we are twelve miles from a railway station, though we look out on one of the loveliest firths in Scotland.
Césarine took it as directed—an invaluable servant, that girl! Meanwhile, we learned from the Morning Post next day that young Mr. Granton had stolen a march upon us. He had arrived from Africa by the same mail with our agent's letter, and had joined his father at once at Glen-Ellachie.
Two days later we received a most polite reply from the opposing interest. It ran after this fashion:—
'Craig-Ellachie Lodge,
'Glen-Ellachie, Inverness-shire.
'Dear Sir Charles Vandrift — Thanks for
