t till a few weeks
since, and then I was looking for something I couldn't find, and poked
your little Bible out from the back of the drawer. `What's this?' I
thought; and I took it up and noticed the red-ink lines under so many
of the verses. Oh, I was struck all of a heap when I read some of
them. They showed me what a wicked man I had been, for they just told
me what I ought to be, and what I could plainly see you was trying to
be when you was living at the Hall. And they told me about the love
of Jesus Christ, and that seemed to cut me to the heart most of all.

"I didn't know what to do, I were quite miserable; and the other
servants began to chaff me, so I tried to forget all about better
things, and put the Bible back in the drawer. But I couldn't let it
rest there, so I kept reading it; but it didn't give me no peace. So
I ventured to kneel me down in my pantry one day and ask God to guide
me, and I felt a little happier after that. But I soon saw as it
wouldn't do for me to remain any longer at the Hall, if I meant to
mend my ways. I were mixed with so many of the others, I couldn't see
my way out of the bad road at all if I stayed. I know I ought to have
gone straight to Sir Lionel, and told him how I had been a-cheating
him; but then I should have brought my fellow-servants, and some of
the tradesmen too, into the scrape, and I couldn't see the end of it.
So I made up my mind to cut and run. I know it's wrong, but I haven't
got the courage just to confess all and face it out.

"And now, what I want to do before I leave the country, for I can't
stay in England, is to see and make amends to you, Jane, as far as I
can. I have found out from one of your old friends here where you are
living, and I mean to let you have this letter on my way. Sir Lionel
has let me have a holiday to see my friends, and I haven't said
anything about not coming back again. But he'll be glad enough that
he's got shut of me when he comes to find out what I've been--more's
the pity. I know better, and ought to be ashamed of myself; but, if I
gets clear off into another country, I'll try and make amends to them
as I've wronged in Monksworthy. You'll find the bracelet and the
Bible along with this letter. Georgina took both bracelets, and left
the one as didn't turn up with me; for, she said, if there was any
searching for it they'd never suspect _me_ of