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204 LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES

almost; you among the rest, I think, Mr. Flaxton?” The speaker turned to the parish-clerk.

“I was,” said Mr, Flaxton, ‘And that party was the cause of a very curious change in some other people’s affaires; I mean in Steve Hardcome’s and his cousin James's.”

“Ah! the Hardcomes,” said the stranger. “How familiar that name is to me! What of them?”

The clerk cleared his throat and began:

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