Nancy. Now, Simon, quit your nonsense and tell me, where’s Marcus Graves?
Simon. The young man has gone West.
Nancy. And you know nothing about him?
Simon. Haven’t heard a word from him. By the by, Nancy, who’s the gent that sticks so close to Miss Bessie?
Nancy. You’d never guess, Simon; that’s the very identical tramp that stopped here six months ago,——the very day you called——
Simon. Yes, washing-day. Well, Nancy, you must have given him a scrubbing. It seems to me he had something to do with Marc’s sudden departure.
Nancy. Everything. He denounced him as a defaulter; and, on his account, Mr. Manning turned Marcus Graves out of his house.
Simon. Indeed!
Nancy. Yes. You see he was Mr. Manning’s comrade in the war! and he thinks the world of him.