CHAPTER XLVIII.

Sixteen-Thousand-Acre Tea Plantation in India and Sixty Thousand

Pounds Imaginary Inheritance--Barton Becomes a Great

Man--The Plot Thickens--Letters from London--Smith Discharged--Petition

for Barton--Smith Presents It at Home Office--Home

Secretary Swallows the Bait--Barton's Triumphant

Release--His Imaginary Fortune Does Not Materialize. 466