d**k JOPLING was detained in the city of York much longer than he anticipated being. The Assizes were being held, and there was a heavy list. The cases in which he was concerned were low down on the list, and so he and the other witnesses had to wait. However, that fact did not cause him any uneasiness. Martha was all right, he argued with himself. She was staying with friends in Ministerfield and would be well looked after. His woodland home was in charge, during his absence, of an underkeeper and his wife, so d**k, having nothing to worry himself about, went in for enjoyment. A forest dweller, going to a city like York, which, notwithstanding that it was a cathedral town, by no means eschewed the pleasures and gaieties of life, found much to arrest his attention. Moreover, it chanced tha
