most essentially serve him, who sends you, through me, the sum contained in that casket."

"Since we are agreed," returned the governor, "I feel no hesitation in writing the letter. Fill your goblets, and whilst you are emptying them again, I will pen the epistle you desire."

Some minutes of silence ensued: the governor then said-"Please to read what I have written, and tell me if it meets your approbation."

Alwin read thus:

"Garcias Xavia greets the Lord Baron de Mowbray. The prisoner named Edward, whom it is now very nearly four years since the Lord Baron enstrusted to his protection, through the means of his deceased brother Sanchez, breathed his last on the evening preceding that of which this epistle bears the date- a violent N 6 fever

fever carried him hastily to the grave. Garcias Xavia trusts that the noble Lord Baron de Mowbray will acknowledge him to have been faithful to the trust reposed in him, and will deign to accept his thanks for the liberality with which he has rewarded the services he is proud of having had it in his power to render to so illustrious a noble..

"It corresponds exactly with my wishes," said Alwin, "and to-morrow I will dispatch one of these, my friends, as a messenger with it to England. Another day, then, we must remain your guests, and to-morrow night at twelve-"

"I will myself conduct you to his cell," said the governor.

"And the instant our purpose in coming hither is effected, you must lead us beyond the walls of this edifice," said Alwin.

"It shall be done," replied the go

vernor.

Alwin now requested the governor to conduct them to their respective chambers; and on hearing this, Hubert directly fled from the foot of the steps to the gallery where he had left his lamp.

If the state of mind in which Hubert passed the remainder of the night cannot be conceived by the reader, the author's attempt to describe it must be ineffectual. At length the morning arrived, and the refulgent rays of the sun once more enlightened the earth.

As Hubert was on the point of repairing to the cell of Edward with his breakfast, and that of his fellow prisoner, Adolphus," one of the keepers came to him, and said, he was sent by the governor to go with him into the prison of the English officer, and bring away from it his fellow captive, the young Adolphus. "The governor,' he said, had expressed himself to relent having so long condemned him to a dun

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geon, when his crime had been only that of love; and had resolved to give him a better apartment, to which he and Hubert were to conduct him."

Hubert could not doubt that Adolphus was to be removed from the cell of Edward, in order that he might not be a witness of his intended murder. ""Tis well," he said, in reply to the information delivered by the other keeper, and led the way to the cell. Hubert perceived that Edward recognised him; but the present was not a moment to acknowledge that he did so, and he departed with Adolphus in silence.

The brain of Hubert had been racked.. during the night, with a thousand plans: for the preservation of his benefactor's life; and that which seemed to promise the greatest hope of success, was, if possible, to find the means of persuading the avaricious governor, that if he suffered the life of Edward to be taken away by the emissaries of Lord Rufus de Madginecourt,

court, he would eventually lose a much greater reward than he had received as the price of his death. The lure he conceived. to be good, but the difficulty was how to represent it to the governor. Were he himself to speak upon it to him, he must, at the same time, confess himself an impostor, a friend to Edward, and that he had been a listener to the conversation the governor had, on the preceding night, held with the English strangers; and to give him any anonymous information upon the subject he felt averse, as he feared that it would not produce the effect of carrying conviction to his mind. The idea, however, he considered as being too good to be suffered to fall to the ground. He accordingly resolved, that as he could not hold out the temptation to him personally,. he would do it anonymously; to this end, he wrote the following letter:

"Garcias