226 LORD M—— AND HIS BABOON. 
they, will easily supply, and we hasten to the expla- 
nation. 
Lord M was in the habit of placing all his 
letters for Lady Louisa in a particular drawer in the 
hall, whence they were taken by his valet to the 
post-office at the neighbouring village. That this 
last personage had, on observing the usual supply of 
epistles to cease, thought the circumstance remark- 
able, was true, but then it was no business of his, 
and saved him a walk to which he was by no means 
partial. A being whom he personally resembled had 
exhibited a more active spirit, and had voluntarily 
taken the letters, which he had watched his master 
put into the drawer,—out of it,—and had conveyed 
them to a depot of stolen articles near the foot of 
the meadow; of their safety, it would appear, not- 
withstanding the lapse of time and his continental 
travels, he was singularly jealous, if we may judge 
from his attack upon the privileged sex. Lord 
M and his bride perceived, with a rapidity 
which duller and less sublimated mortals can hardly 
conceive, the whole of the mystery ; the letters were 
there and the delinquent also, who was impudent 
enough even to resist their delivery to the writer of 
them, and for which he would have been caned, but 
that the young lady interfered. This last was in a 
short time restored to health and the bloom of beauty, 
and with the entire accordance of her mother and 
Lord M.’s father, was re-united to the husband of her 
choice—the enraptured Lord M——. 
