Tea with Alice, and hot cakes, was too tempting to be resisted, and Hester nodded her acceptance of the invitation, and then said: "I'll be at Brading's, and you take care of them papers, and bring 'em to-morrow when you come."
Molly breathed a sigh of relief that she would not have to part with the precious documents as she said, "Very well, I will take care of them, and I feel sure the people at Brading's will give you something for taking them back."
"Yes, perhaps they will if you go with me, but I shouldn't have much of a show there if I went by myself."
Molly laughed. "I think you would find it all right," she said; "I am sure it will be, in fact."
And then she bade the girl good-night and went off with her prize to find Arthur and tell him what she had discovered.
But when she reached the dining-room, she found that Mr. Andrews had just come in.
Arthur had been out, and, meeting the old gentleman not far from the gate, had brought him in to see his mother.
The lawyer congratulated her upon her restoration to health and being able to join the family circle once more.
And Mrs. Murray, who had always carefully avoided meeting Mr. Andrews, was quite suave and pleasant in her greeting, for she had begun to understand the condition of affairs now, and was willing to fall in with the arrangements by which Arthur's inheritance would become a valuable property.
"You will have to be careful and thrifty for a year or two to come," said Mr. Andrews, "for although I have managed to pull the chestnut out of the fire for you, still there will be no ready money for you yet. You see, I have had to sell one or two parcels of land fairly cheap to get a little ready money, for cash down was what I needed. Then I have had to borrow on other securities, and the bank has lent me some, so that I have been able to pay Lady Mary the last penny we owed her this morning, and all the debts and securities are safe in my hands once more."