The Wrong Man 155 



to you for an excellent day's sport. Pray excuse my 

 abrupt departure to the ladies.' 



Wenhaston drove off — he had been obliged to walk 

 several miles out of his way under x\lister's guidance to 

 find a trap, but he was determined not to eat and sleep 

 at Corriecuisk — leaving Mr. Higgs very uncomfortable 

 indeed. He must have found out what was in that letter, 

 but how ? Donald understood his master's ways, and 

 there w^as no shrewder servant in Scotland. What else 

 could it be ? Mr. Higgs racked his brain in vain, and as 

 his sister and daughter did not know about the letter, he 

 could not put it to them. He must tell them that 

 Hugh had left, however, and said that he had to go to 

 Glenlochrie. 



* Had to go ? How could he have to go, papa ? And 

 how could he have heard anything from Glenlochrie 

 to-day ? ' Matilda asked. 



* Does the young man know Lord and Lady Heather- 

 ton ? ' Miss Higgs asked. 



It was the ambition of her life to make Lady 

 Heatherton's acquaintance. Had she been entertaining 

 an angel unawares ? 



' It's very likely, I should think, considering that 

 " the young man " moves in the very best society, and 

 has one of the finest estates in England, worth at least 

 40,000Z. a year,' Mr. Higgs snappishly answered, adding 

 on a bit to make Wenhaston richer than he was, and 

 pretending that he had known it all the time. 



Miss Higgs glanced towards Matilda. 



' But I thought,' she began, ' that Sir George ' 



However, we need not follow the conversation of the 

 Higgs family. There must be something wrong, they 

 saw, or Wenhaston would not have hired the only trap 



