"I know others who are gamblers," cried out Zuleika. "I know others who are every thing that's bad, Adolphus," Lady Raikes exclaimed. "For heaven's sake, what do you mean?" said Adolphus, becoming red and looking very much frightened. "I mean my husband," gasped the lady. "I shall go home to papa. I shall take my dear little blessed babe with me and go to papa, Adolphus. And if you had the spirit of a man, you would--you would avenge me, that you would." "Against Joe!" said the heavy dragoon; "against Joe, Zuly? Why, hang me if Joe isn't the greatest twump in Chwistendom. By Jove he is!" said the big one, shaking his fist; "and if that scoundwel, Vincent, or any other wascal, has said a word against him, by Jove--" "Pray stop your horrid oaths and vulgar threats, Adolphus," her ladyship said. "I don't know what it is--you've got something against Joe. Something has put you against him; and if it's Vincent, I'll wring his--" "Mercy! mercy! Pray cease this language." Lady Raikes said. "You don't know what a good fellow Joe is," said the dragoon. "The best twump in England, as _I've_ weason to say, sister: and here he comes with the horses. God bless the old boy!" With this, honest Sir Joseph Raikes took his seat in his carriage; and tried, by artless blandishments, by humility, and by simple conversation, to coax his wife into good humor; but all his efforts were unavailing. She would not speak a word during the journey to London; and when she reached home, rushed up to the nursery and instantly burst into tears upon the sleeping little Adolphus's pink and lace cradle. "It's all about that necklace, Mrs. Prince," the good-natured Baronet explained to the nurse of the son and heir. "I know it's about the necklace. She rowed me about it all the way down to Epsom; and I can't give it her now, that's flat. I've _no_ money. I _won't_ go tick, that's flat; and she ought to be contented with what she has had; oughtn't she, Prince?" "Indeed she ought, Sir Joseph; and you're an angel of a man, Sir Joseph; and so I often tell my lady, Sir Joseph," the nurse said: "and the more you will spile her, the more she will take on, Sir Joseph."