The clergyman advised that the money should be laid out under the guidance of Messrs. Seal and Delivery, highly respectable solicitors in the neighbouring town of H----. He gave an introduction to those gentlemen by a letter, which explained the matter as it had been explained to him; and this introduction, and his explanation, saved all inquiries as to the source of the funds, which they profitably invested for the childless couple, who will never enjoy a penny of it. The two miscarriages I have mentioned were the only failures of the plan of the gang to capture one whole week's wages throughout the line of the Great ---- Railway Company. Next day (Friday) Mr. Wilson went on his holiday trip to Paris. The company's servants were expecting him, as usual--except at the one station to which a misadventure had taken the money intended for its use. It is needless to say that no Mr. Wilson and no money reached either of these places from London, as expected. Until rather late in the afternoon, when the chief cashier's office was closed, and that exalted functionary and all his clerks had gone home, nothing was said about the affair. It had not indeed until then become very remarkable; but as soon as the fact became the subject of particular notice, it rose to the magnitude of a grievance, and threatened to become a scandal. "We've had no money, and ain't likely to get none till to-morrow," said a porter at one of the extremest stations to the guard of an up-train. "Oh, bosh; don't come that, you know. I sha'n't lend you another shilling in a hurry," retorted the guard, who had two days before lent that small amount to the friendly porter. "'Pon my soul, we ain't," rejoined the porter; and he appealed to his fellow-servants for a corroboration, which they supplied. "It will be all right to-morrow," said the guard. "I suppose the chief cashier has got a headache and hasn't been to the office, or Wilson has got the belly-ache, or some fine thing or other. Well, it's lucky for me my old woman isn't without a pound; so she can go to market, if we are as bad off at our station as you are here; and I suppose we're all in the same pickle."