Jack also learns that Jerry Chirke met Rose, Nell's nurse and chaperone, a pleasant looking middle aged woman, and fell in love with her and that is one reason why he wants to reform, and why he comes to the Toll House. He stables his horse there when visiting Rose. Jack finds him a decent man in spite of his profession. He was from a poor family and had to work in a factory as a child, and he's never forgotten it, which is why he is kind to Ben.
Nell is increasingly worried that her grandfather is now very frail and dying and she cannot leave him, especially with Henry hanging around for no good reason. However Sir Peter persuades her to marry Jack, privately by special licence, so that she will have someone to look after her when he dies.
Eventually, Jack finds that the reason Henry is hanging around is that he has been involved with stealing a large load of the new sovereigns which are about to be issued soon as legal currency. He learns that Henry and his accomplice, Nathan, and their men did the robbery and the coins are now hidden in a cave on Sir Peter Stornaway's property. He also finds the body of Ned Brean there, Nathan having killed him to make sure he did not talk.
Jack and Jerry become involve in a gunfight in the cave and Henry and Nathan are both killed.... but Jack allows Jerry to claim that he found the hoard of coins, as there will be a reward from the Government for finding them and he can use the money to buy a farm. Jerry is delighted, and he and Jack return to the village to meet Nell and Rose, and he and Rose can now plan their wedding. Jack has decided to tell Ben about the death of his father when he feels the time is right, and he plans to take the boy to his estate where he can be looked after, and train as a groom. However, Jerry and Rose decide that they will take care of Ben and adopt him....
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