 to account for the reports against our hero, I shall go back to Lisle, where the reader will recollect I entreated his particular attention to all that passed.
Our hero had never seen Flush, and the two brothers were so grown out of each other's remembrance, that it is not wonderful they should remain in mutual ignorance till an accident unravelled the mystery. After Zekiel had retired, vowing revenge, and left his brother master of the field of battle, Kiddy, as we have seen, told him that revenge was very easily in his power. He then informed him of Madame St. Vivier's intention to complete the happiness of Charles that evening, and shewed him a chamber which he said and believed was hers. Zekiel, following the direction of his trusty valet, was admitted to Kitty's bed room, and, in the full belief that he was deceiving his brother, made as happy as he could wish.
The question here is, how came Flush, who was just arrived, to know so well all these private matters? The answer is, by Mrs. Kitty, who, together with her mistress, had been as well instructed

upon this occasion by Mrs. O'Shocknesy, as Miss Snaffle had upon a former one.
Flush, having the honour to know both the ladies, did not scruple, when the squabble began between our hero and his brother, to interrogate the waiting maid as to
'how the cat jumped,'
as he called it, and, having learnt from her the particulars of the assignation, proposed to put Zekiel in the place of Charles, which she promised, without intention to perform; for she knew if it were detected all their other designs on our hero would be at an end; and, at the same time, she feared a discovery from Flush, for indeed he menaced it, if she refused. She therefore directed him to conduct Zekiel to her bed chamber, where he passed the night, and the person who tapped at the door was Mr. Tadpole, who having first knocked at his soidisante sister's, thought he had mistaken the room, and afterwards went to his own bed, for fear of further mistakes.

So completely however were all these cross purposes acted, that Kitty believed the person who knocked at the door to be no other than Mr. Figgins, who, in his turn, as has been shewn, was otherwise employed. Kitty, however, having given

Madame St. Vivier a hint of this business, she burnt a light in her chamber, by which means Charles
