r do with it?"

"Make money of it; whatever way he may go to work he will do that."

"But will Tozer bring it to me on the 20th?"

"Oh, Lord, no! Upon my word, Mark, you are deliciously green. A cat
would as soon think of killing a mouse directly she got it into her
claws. But, joking apart, you need not trouble yourself. Maybe you
will hear no more about it; or, perhaps, which no doubt is more
probable, I may have to send it to you to be renewed. But you need
do nothing till you hear from me or somebody else."

"Only do not let any one come down upon me for the money."

"There is not the slightest fear of that. Tally-ho, old fellow! He's
away. Tally-ho! right over by Gossetts' barn. Come along, and never
mind Tozer--'Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.'" And away
they both went together, parson and member of Parliament. And then
again on that occasion Mark went home with a sort of feeling that the
bill did not matter. Tozer would manage it somehow; and it was quite
clear that it would not do to tell his wife of it just at present.

On the 21st of that month of February, however, he did receive a
reminder that the bill and all concerning it had not merely been a
farce. This was a letter from Mr. Sowerby, dated from Chaldicotes,
though not bearing the Barchester post-mark, in which that gentleman
suggested a renewal--not exactly of the old bill, but of a new one.
It seemed to Mark that the letter had been posted in London. If I
give it entire, I shall, perhaps, most quickly explain its purport:

Chaldicotes,--20th February, 185--.

MY DEAR MARK,

"Lend not thy name to the money-dealers, for the same is a
destruction and a snare." If that be not in the Proverbs,
it ought to be. Tozer has given me certain signs of his
being alive and strong this cold weather. As we can
neither of us take up that bill for L400 at the moment, we
must renew it, and pay him his commission and interest,
with all the rest of his perquisites, and pickings, and
stealings--from all which, I can assure you, Tozer does
not keep his hands as he should do. To cover this and some
other little outstanding trifles, I have filled in the new
bill for L500, making it due 23rd of May next. Before that
time, a certain accident will, I trust, have occurred to
your impoverished friend. By the by, I never told you how
she went off from Gatherum Castle, the morning after you
left us, with the