'll
write to Miss Brodrick's father, and ask him to come over here before
the trial. He is much more concerned in the matter than I am, and
should know as well what ought to be done."

The letter was written urging Mr Brodrick to come at once. "I have
no right to tell you," Mr Apjohn said in his letter, "that there is
ground for believing that such a document as that I have described
is still existing. I might too probably be raising false hope were I
to do so. I can only tell you of my own suspicion, explaining to you
at the same time on what ground it is founded. I think it would be
well that you should come over and consult with me whether further
steps should be taken. If so, come at once. The trial is fixed for
Friday the 30th." This was written on Thursday the 22nd. There was,
therefore, not much more than a week's interval.

"You will come with me," said Mr Brodrick to the Rev. William Owen,
after showing to him the letter from the attorney at Hereford.

"Why should I go with you?"

"I would wish you to do so--on Isabel's behalf."

"Isabel and I are nothing to each other."

"I am sorry to hear you say that. It was but the other day that you
declared that she should be your wife in spite of herself."

"So she shall, if Mr Henry Jones be firmly established at Llanfeare.
It was explained to me before why your daughter, as owner of
Llanfeare, ought not to marry me, and, as I altogether agreed with
the reason given, it would not become me to take any step in this
matter. As owner of Llanfeare she will be nothing to me. It cannot
therefore be right that I should look after her interests in that
direction. On any other subject I would do anything for her."

The father no doubt felt that the two young people were self-willed,
obstinate, and contradictory. His daughter wouldn't marry the
clergyman because she had been deprived of her property. The
clergyman now refused to marry his daughter because it was presumed
that her property might be restored to her. As, however, he could
not induce Mr Owen to go with him to Carmarthen, he determined to go
alone. He did not give much weight to this new story. It seemed to
him certain that the man would destroy the will,--or would already
have destroyed it,--if in the first instance he was wicked enough
to conceal it. Still the matter was so great and the question so
important to his daughter's interest that he felt himself compelled
to do as Mr Apjohn had proposed. But he