Poor Amos! how terribly his heart sank within him when he heard these words!  Yes; he could have little doubt about it.  This mimic and swindler, he felt assured, was none other than his own brother-in-law. Happily, however, he was pretty sure to be now out of the neighbourhood, and was not likely to show himself soon again.  But what of his unhappy wife?  Alas!  Amos dreaded to think what the unprincipled man might do with or against her.