The Battersea pot-boy – The barge-maid and her barge – Stabbing in the dark – Liberality of a miser – A mother’s feelings.

We were again at a stand in our investigations. The boy was lost, without a trace of what had become of him. Jones had failed in his scheme of palming ⁴⁵ upon the relatives the body that was dressed in William’s clothes; though it appeared, from the conversation which Mary had overheard, that he had made the girl Sally believe it, and that she had accordingly repeated it to Miss Jones, whom she had visited, it would appear, before her departure to embark for France, if she really did embark according to her promise.