STEPHEN DUGARD. CHAPTER I. The little stuff burnt out That yields a waning light to dying comfort, In wretched things more wretched is delay. MASSINGER'S "Picture." ON their journey, Aston communicated to Cameron the letter he had received. In the absence of all knowledge or even suspicion as to its real meaning, it was not in human sagacity to penetrate it. Cameron therefore read it in vain. But he could not repress a rising sentiment of indignation at the idea that any circumstances should have been deemed sufficient to justify its being sent: for among all the imagined reasons which they perplexed themselves with assigning, there was not one VOL. III. B v, 3 871157 |