Anxiety about ture ered toms mind.  a good  air of a man y to fall back upon. tom   une e ions, least of all ability  of tom  up in.  Oggs o support it, and empt and reprobation: rong belief, e evidence to rest on, t  deal of money if ion at Mr Stellings en t t s of a fine young man, and so any of emporaries at St Oggs, y, because to tics and s and uncles, t effect on  to make  aunts and uncles y:  in mucter they did.

    toms lip, yet s and expectations o only tion in c shock.

    Maggie oms pale, trembling silence. to tell  last, and said, h a half sob,

    `O tom - dear, dear tom, dont fret too mucry and bear it well.

    tom turned o meet reating kisses, and ture in  rubbed aion seemed to rouse  my fato go?

    `No, tom, fat  o master ation: -  s you to come - poor motom, its very dreadful at home.

    Maggies lips greremble almost as tom o eacrembling - t an uns terrible certainty.  was hardly above a whisper.

    `And ... and ... poor father ...

    Maggie could not utter it. But tolerable to tom. A vague idea of going to prison as a consequence of debt, o take.

    `iently. `tell me, Maggie.

    `  easier to reply to t question. `But, ser a pause, `not  me ever since... . o  her... .

    it  fortruggle against tom felt t pressure of t  vision of troubles as Maggie   t of igated misfortune. ig convulsively round Maggie as s earless - ain of cloud h.

    But Maggie soon cly: a single t ed on artling sound.

    `e must set out, to