sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before that, and a good many nights in succession, making a grand clearance among mr. stryver's papers before the setting in of the long vacation. the clearance was effected at last; the stryver arrears were handsomely fetched up; everything was got rid of until november should come with its fogs atmospheric, and fogs legal, and bring grist to the mill again.