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WAITNO ANU 1IOPINO.

•The Week «f expectation passed, end no tidine.n from Uncle Joseph reached Porthgenna Tower.

On the eighth. dav, Mr. Frankland aeDt a in^geiuer to Truro, with orders to find ««ui ttw fablnet-maker's shop kept i»y Mr. Buschmaun, and inquire of lbp person left in charge th»re wheth •er he Imd received any news from his master. The mes*entrer rettirin*d in the afternoon, and brought word thnt Mr: Buschrnann had written one sli "rt note to his shopman since his lepartii'-e, an nouncirm that he had arri '"d -afely towards iiivchtf:-* 11 in London: that he had

h£pad diHt»wre1 hisnieow'a vMne« by.

Tin' one fragment of intelligence thus obtained was not of a nature to relieve

obtained was not or a nature to relieve flue„t

the depression of spirits whmh the doubt

and siis|euse of the past week had pro duced in Mrs. Frankland. Her husband endeavored to combat the oppression of mind from which she was suffering, by reminding her that the ominous silence of Uncle Joseph mi^ht be just as probably occasioned by hw niece's unwillingness as by her inability to return with bun to Truro. Taking into consideration her excessive sensitiveness and b« unreasoning timidity, he declared it to be quite possible that Mrs. Frankland's message, instead of reassuring her, might only inspiro her with fresh apprehensions, and might consequently strengthen her resolution te keep herself out of reach of all communications from Porthgenna Tower. Rosamond listened patiently while this view of th» case was placed before her, and acknowledged that the reasonbleness of it \vw oeyond dispute but her readiness in admitting that her husband might be ri^lit and that she might be wrong, was accompaniod bv no change for tho Iwtter iu the condition of her spirits. The interpretation which the old man had placed upon the alteration for the worse in Mrs. Jazeph's handwriting, h8d produced a vivid impression on hrr mind, which had been strengthened by her own recollection of her mother'* pale, wornfaee, when they met asst rangers at West Winston. Reason, therefore, as convincingly as he might, Mr. Frankland was uuable to shake his wile's conviction that Uncle Joseph's silence was ctused solely by the lllne*-* of his niece.

The return of the messenger from Truro suspended any further discussion on this topic by leading Mr. and Mrs. Frankland to occupy themselves in considering question of much re iter itn porta nee. After having waited one day beyond the week that had been appointed, what was the proper course of action for them now to adopt, in the absence of any information from London or from Truro to decide tkeir future proceedings?

Leonard first idea was to write immediately to Uncle Joseph, at tho address which be bad given on the occasion of ids visit to Pqrtbgenna Tower. When this project was communicated to Rosamond, she opposed it on the ground that the necessary delav before tbe answer to the letter could arrive would involve a serious waste of time, when it might, for aught thev knew to the contrary, be of tbe last importance to them not to risk tbe loss of a single day. ir Illness prevented Mrs. Jazeph from traveling, it would be necessary to see her at once, because that illness, might increase. If she were only suspicious of their motives, it was equally important to open personal communications with her before she could find an opportunity of concealing herself again In some place of retuge which Uncle Joseph himself might not be able to trace.

The truth of these conclusions was obvious but Leonard healtated to adopt tbem, beeause they involved the necessity of a journey te London. If he went these without his wife, his blindness placed him at the mercy of strangers an servants. In conducting investigates of the most dolicate and most private nature. If Rosamond acoom

private nature. If Rosamond accom-

pan led him. it would be necessary to

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road and Kxeter. Alter thus ing away the dlfflcultiss which seem

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nninenoss of tne letter which had found in the Myrtle Room, as well as in ascertaining all tbe details of tbe extraordinary fraud wbiob hsd been practiced by Mrs. TreverUis an her husband. She pleaded, also, ber own natural anxiety to make all the atonement in ber power tor the pain ah© must have unconsciously inflicted, in the bedroom at West Winston, on the person of all others whose fallings and sorrows she was most bound te respect and having thus stated the motives which urged ber husband and herself to loso no time in eemmunicsting personally with Mrs. Jazeph, she again drew the inevitable conclusion, that there was ne alter native In the position in which they were now placed, but to start, forthwith, on tbe ^urney to London.

A little further consideration satisfied Leonard, that tbe emergency was ot such a nature as to render all attempts to meet it by half measures impossible. He felt thatbia own convictions agreed with his.wile'# snd he resol 'ed acoordtaglv tO"^e»stod«c,- w1H*oul further iadecision or further delay. Before tbe

evening was over, the servants at Porthgenna were amased by receiving direotiors to pack the truuks for traveling to order and to order bones at an farly hour the.ut^t the first day ol

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ift4»Solb»nt which saved him nil trouble Vnomimr. to irive hisonhnon on a private in finding it out and that he intended to go and see her at an early hour the next morning Since the delivery of that note, no further romuiunication hid been received from him, and nothing, there ore, was known of the period at which be might be expected to return.

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On tne first day of thi trawlers started as aeoi vasr ready, rested on'tfie

the, tbe carriage road towards

noon, and remained for the night at Liskeard. Opjthe second day, they arrived it Eieter, and slept there. On the third day, »bey reached London by the. railway, between dx and sevep dfclock. In theevehing.

When they were comfortably settled fbr tbe night at their hotel, and whqn w1 hour's rest and quiet had enabled them to it-cover a little after tbe Jfctigues of tiie journey, Ko»amond wrote two notes under hrir husband's direction. Tbe tirst was addressed to Mr. Busohraann it simply informed him of their arrival, and ortheir earnest desire to see him at tbe hotel as early as possible the next morning and it concluded by cautionins: him to wait until he had aeen them, before he announced their presence iu London to his niece.

The second note was addressed to the farcily solicitor, Mr. Nixon—the same gentleman who, more than a year since, had written, at Mrs. Frankland's request, the letter which informed Andrew Treverton of his brother's decease, and of the circum itances under which the Captain had died. All that Rosamond now wrote in her husband's name

aril* IUKMU4H mj LAfun'Mi. 1UOQU QOW Wf0*0 ill UOr aUsUHlia uHUie met witD* h«wpitablft-welc»'t* from hw I

country man, the Gernitn hak^r that

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to ask of Mr. Nixon, wis

be would endeavor to oall at their

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and the note to Uncle Joseph, were sent to their respective addresses by a mes the evening when thev

senger, on the evening when they vrer^ written. The first visitor who arrived the next morning was the solicitor—a clear head*

polite

kn'ovvn

old gentleman who had

captain Treverton and his father

before hiui. He came to the hotel fully expecting to be consulted on some diffi-

culties conuected with tbe Porthgenna estate, which the local agent was, perhaps. unable to settle, and which might be oftoo confused and intricate a nature to be easily expressed in writing. When he heard what tbee•« ergency really was and when the letter that had oeen found in the Mrytle room was placed in his hands, it is not too much to say that, for the first time in tho course of along life and a varied practice among all sorts and condition of clients, sheer astonishment utterly paralyzed Mr. Nixon's faculties, and bereft him, for some moments, of the power of uttering a single word.

Whan, however, Mr. Frankland proceeded from making the disclosure to announcing his resolution to give up the purchase money of Portbgenna Tower, if the genuineness of the letter could be proved to his own satisfaction, tbe old lawyer recovered the use of his tongue immediately, and protested against his client's intention, with the sincere warmth of a man who tboroughly understood the advantage of l-eing rich, and who knew what it was to gain and to lose a fortune of forty thousand pounds. Leonard listened with patient attention, while Mr. Nixon argued from his professional point of view, against regarding the letter, taken by itself, as a genuine documert, and against accepting Mrs. Jazeph's evidence, taken with it, as decisive on the subjeot^of Mrs. Frankland's real parentage. Me expatiated on the improbability of Mis. Treverton's alleged fraud upon her husband having been coqimitted, without other persons, besides her maid and herself, being in tbe secret. He declared it to be in accordance with all received experience of human nature, that one or more other persons must have spoken of tbe Secret, either from malice, or from want of caution, and that consequent exposure of tho truth must, in the course of so long a period as twenty two years, have come to the knowledge of some among the many people in the West of England as well as in London, who knew the Treverton' family personally, or by reputation. From tnis objection, be passed to another, which admitted the possible genuineness of the letter as a written document, but which pleaded the probability of its having been produced under tbe influence of some menial delusion on Mrs. Treverton's part, which her maid might have had an interest in humoring at tbe time, though she might have hesitated after ber mistress's aiatb. at risking the possible consequences of attempting to profit by tbe imposture. Having stated this theory, as one which not only explained the writing of the letter, but the hiding of it also, Mr. Nixon further observed in reference to Mrs. Jazeph, that any evidence she might give, was of little or no value in a legal point of view, from the difficulty—or, he migh say, tbe impossibility—of satisfactorily identifying the infant mentioned in the letter, with the lady whom ho bad now tho honor of addressing as Mr*. Frankland, and whom no unsubstantiated document in existence should induce him to believe to be any other than the daughter

friend

Rosaonnd met both these difficulties with her usual directness and decision. The idea of her husband traveling anywhere, under any circumstances, in his helpless, dependent state, without hav lependent state, without hav- jn8eph's testimony before he acted deing her to attend on him, she dismissed

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Tr«verton.

risk all kinds of delays and incopven Having heard tbe lawyer's objections tho tuirtiii* tho child with thenn on »l„i- «„_

iences by tsking the cblld with them on along and wearisome joorney of more tban two hundred and fifty miles.

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to set themselves in opposition to tb journey, she again reverted to the absolute necessity of undertaking it. 8h» reminded Leonard of tbe serious Interest that tbey both had in immediately ob taining Mrs. Jasaph'e testimony to the

client, Captain

Having heard tbe lawyer's obje to the end, Leonard admitted tbeir ingenuity, but acknowledged at the same time, that they had produced no alteration in his impressions on the subject of Uie letter, or If his convictions as to the course of duty which he felt bound to follow. He would wait, he said, for Mrs. were of

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as too preposterous Tor consider- .v. .njwere ivan atio*.

is too preposterous for consider-

if that testimony

end given in such a

as to satisfy him that his wife

f° bad no moral right to the fortune that

fatigues a long journey she met by possessed, hi would re to re it at once proposing that they should travel to

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Exeter at, their own time ana in ineir Treveflen'*0* own cWyAnce, and that they should afterwards insure plenty of comfort and

nmrmnn who hsd—Mr. Andrew

Finding that no fresh srguments or estions could shake Mr. franlt

reiQlllblVD, MIU MI«D nw

h!lllefrectin

ippeal to Rosamond had the sljghtest meet in

rtimulating her to usehor in

fluvnoe. for the purpose of inducing her hus'iand to slter his determination and feeling eonvinoed, moreover, from all tbat be heard, that Mr. Frankland would, If be was of posed by many more objections either employ another professional adviser, ar risk committing some fatal legal error, by acting for himself in tbe matter of ^restoring the money Mr. Nixon st last consented, under protect, to give his client what help be needed, in casa it became necessary to bold communication with Andrew Treverton, He listened with po lite resignation to Leonard's brief statement of tbe questions tbst be intended te put to Mrs. Jszeph: and said, wl'h the slightest possible dash of sarcasm, when it came to his turn to speak, that thev were exeallent questions in a moral point of view, and would, doubtless,

firoduoeanswers

which wonld be full of

nterest of the most romantic kind. "B it,*" he add*d. "as you have one child already, Mr. Franklaui, and as you may, perhaps, if I may venture on suggesting such a thing, nave more in tbe course of years and aa those children, when they grow up, may bear of the loss of their mother's fortuns, and may wish to know why it waa sacrificed I should rooommend—resting the mat ter on family grounds alone, and net going further to make a legal paint of it

also—that yeu procure from Mrs. Jaseph besides tbe viva vooe evidenoe you propose to extract (against the sdtniaslbility of which, In this esse, *ga\A pro test)~ a written declaration which you msy leave behind you at yepr death, and which may Justify you U» the eyeis of your chitorsii/in ca&e thft necessity for such justification should arise at some future period."

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This advice waa too plainly valuable to be neglected.. At Leonard's mqueet, Mr. Nixon drew out at once a form of declaration, affirming the genuineness of tbe letter addresssd by the late Mrs. Treverton,-on her death bed, to her husband, sinoe also deceased, and bearing witness to the truth of tbe statements therein contained, both as regarded tbe fraud practiced on Captsin Treverton, and the asserted psrentag? of the child. Telling Mr. Frankland that he would do well to have Mrs. Jazeph'a signature to this doenment attested by the names of two competent witnesses, Mr. Nixon handed the declaration Rosamond to read aloud to ber husband, and, finding that no objeetion was mads to any part of it, and tbat he oould be of no further use in tbe present early stage of the proceedings, rose to take bis leave. Leonard engaged to communicate with him again, in the course of the day, if necessary and he retired, reiterating ids protest to the last, and declaring that be had never met with such an extraordinary case, and suob a se fwilled client Defore, in the whole course of his practica.

Nearly-an hour elapsed after the departure of the lawyer, Defore any second visitor was announced. At,the expira tion of that time, tbe welcome sound of footsteps was heard approaching tho door, and Uncle Joseph entered tho room. )samond's observation", stimulated by anxiety, detected a cnango in his look and manner, the moment he appeared. His face was harassed and fatigued, avid his gait, as headvanced into t'ie room, had loiit the briskness and acvlty which so quaintly distinguished it, when she Haw ni for the first tiui'*, at Porthgenua Tower. He tidied to add to his first words of greeting an apology for being late but Rosamond interrupted hiiH, in hernagerness to ask ths first im portant question.

We kuow that you have discovered her address," she said anxiously but we know nothing more. Is she as you feared to find her? Is she ill?"

The old man shook his head sadly. "When I showed yon her letter," he. said, "what did I tell you She is so ill', madam, that not even tbe message your kindness gave to me will do her any good."

Those few simple worda struck Rosamond's heart with a strange fear, which silenced ber against her own will, when sbe tried to speak again. Uncle Joseph understood the anxious looks she fixed on him, and thQ quick sign she made towards tho chair standing nearest to the sofa on which she and her bushand we.e sitting. There he took bis place, and there he confided to them all that he had to ell.

His first question, he said, when he reached the shop of his countryman, the Germ in baker, related to th^ locality of tbe postofflce to which his niece's letters were addressed and theanswer informed bim that it was situated within ten minutes' walk of his friend's house. Tbe conversation tbat ensued on the subjectofhis errand in London, and of bis hopes and fears in undertaking it, led to more questions and answers which terminated in the discovery that the baker, amjng his other customers, supplied tbe landlady of a lodging hi use in tbe neigbborhoed with certain light biscuits ware purchased for the use of an invalid landlady, on one of tbe many occosions when she came to the shop and gossiped about her own affairs, expressed her siyprise that a person so evidently respectable and so punctual in all ber payments as the sick lodger, should be lying ill without a friend to come and see ber, and should be living under the name of "Mrs. James," when the name, marked on her linen was "S. Jazeph." Upon arriving at this extraordinary result of a conversation which had started from the simplest possible beginning, tbe old man had taken down the address of the lodging house immediately. and had gone there at an early hour the next morning.

He had been saddened, over night, by tbe confirmation of his fears on his niece's sccount, and he was startled, when be saw her in the morning, by the violent nervous agitation which she manifested as he approached her bedside. But. he had not lest heart and hope, nntii he had communicated Mrs. Frankland's message,and had found that it failed altogether in producing the re^ assuring effect on bet spirits which he had trusted and believed that it would exercise. Instead of soothing, it seemed to excite and alarm her afresh. Among a host of minnte inquiries about Mrs. Frankland's looks, about ber manner towards him, about the exact words she had spoken, all of which he was able to answer more or less to her satisfaction. she had addressed two questions to bim to which be was utterly unable to reply. The first of the questions was, Whother Mrs. Frankland had ssld anything about the Secret? The second was,- Whether sbe bad spoken any ohance werd to lead to the suspicion that sbe had found out the situation'of the Myrtle Room

Tjie doctor in attendance hadoome in, tbe eld man added, while be was still sitting by hi» niece's bedside, and still trying Ineffectually to indu*e hor accept the friendly and rjsssuring message of Mrs. Frankl.-.nd, as sufficient answer to the q,uastio|U wljlcU he was unable ts mnet by any mors direct and more convincing form of reply. After making some inquiries and talking a little while on indifferent matters, the doctor had privatelv taken him aside had informed him that tbe pain ovtr tbe region of tha heart and the difficulty In breathing, which were the symptoms of which hi) niece oomplaincd, were more serious In their nature than persons unInstructed in medical matters might be disposed to think and hsd begged him to give ber no ni^re messages from uiy one, unless be ft it per-, fe&ly sure beforehand that they would have tbe effect of clearing her mind, at once and forever, from the secret anxieties thst now harassed it—anxieties which he might rent asiurodl were aggravating ber malady day by dav, and rendering all tbe tnedical help tbat oould be given of littls or no avail.

Upon this, after sitting longer with his niece, snd after holding counsel with himself, he bad resolved to write privately to Mrs. Frankland that evening, after getting back to bis friend's house. The letter bad taken him longer to oom pose than any one accustomed to writing would belisve. At last, after delays iu making a fair copy from manv rough draft*, and delays in leaving hia task to attend on his niece, he had completed a letter narrating wb&t had happened since his arrival in London, In language which he hoped might he understood. Judging by comparison of dates, this letter must have, crossed Mr. mid Mrs. Frankland on the road. It contained nothing more thsn he hsd Just been relating with bis own lipe—exoept thst it also communicated, ss a proof thst dis­

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•rTlgRHE HAUTE SATURDAY'13yENII?"6- MAIL.

tance had not diminished the fear wbic tormented his niece's mind, theexplanstion she bad given to him ofher non cealment of h?r ppme, and 01 ber choie of an abode-ttmonu strangers, when sh» had frienda in London to whom sb might have gone. .Tbat explanation iwas perhaps needless to have lengthen ed the letter by repeating lor it only involved hia saying over again, in sub* stance, what be had already said ii speaking of the niotive which had forced 8arah to part from him at Truro.

With last words such as those, the sad and simple story of the old inan *m to an end. After waiting a Ht-lo tore cover her velf-possession snd to steady ber voice. Rosamond touched her husband to draw his attention to herself, and whispered to him— "I msy say all, now, that I wishedto say at Porttiaenaa

All." be answered. "If yon can trust yourself, Rosamond,.it is fittest that be should hear it from your lips."

After tbe first natural burst of astonish mont was over, the effect of the dis closure of the Secret on Uncle Joseph exhibited the most striking contrast that can be imagined to tbe effect of it on Mr. Nixon. No shadow of doubt darkened the old man's face not a word of objection dropped from his lips. The one emotion excited in him was simple, unreflecting, unalloyed delight. He sprang to his feet with all his natural activity, his eyes sparkled again with all their natural brightness: one moment he clapped his hands like a child the next, he caught up his hat, and entreated Rosamond to let him lead her at once to his niece's bedside. "If you will onlv tell Sarah what you have just told mej"he cried, hurrying across the room to open the door, "you will give her back her courage, you will raise her up from her bed, vou will cure her before the day is out

A warning word from Mr. Frankland stopped him on a sudden, and brought him back, silent and attentive, to the chair that he had l«ft the mome it before.

Think a little of what tbe doctor told you," said Leonard.. "The sudden surprise which has made you so happy might do fatal mischief to your niece. Before we take the responsibility of speaking to ber on subject which is sure to agitate her violently, however careful we may be in introducing it, we ought first, I think, for safety's sake, to apply to the doctor forbad vice."

Rosamond warmly seconded her husband's suggestion, and with her characteristic i'mpatience ot delay, proposad that they shov.ld find out the medical man immediately. Uncle Joseph announced—a little unwillingly.as it seemed—in answer to her inquiries, tbat be knew the place of tbe doctor's residence, and that he was generally to be found at home before one o'clock in the After•* noon. It was then just half-past twelve and Rosamond, with "ner husband's approval, rang the bell at once to send for a cab. She was about to leave the room to put on ber bonnet, after gfviug tbe necessary order, when the old man 8toppedher by taking, with someap pearance ot hesitation and confusion, if it was considered necessary that he could go to the doctor with Mr.and Mrs. Frankland adding, before the question could be answered,.that he would great-, ly prefer, if there was no objection to it on their parts, being left to wait at tbe ttbtel to receive any instructions they might wish to give him on their return. Leonard immediately complied with his request, without inquiring into bis reasons for making it but Rosamond's curiosity was aroused, and she asked why be preferred remaining by himself at the hotel to going, with the:« to tbe doctor.

I like him not," said the old man. "When be speaks about Sarah, he looks and talks as if he thought she would never get up from her bed again." Answering in those brief words, he walked away uneasily to the window,as if he desired to say co more.

The residence of the doctor was at some little distance, but Mr. and Mrs. Frankland arrived there be ore on? o'clock, and iound him St home..

Kome,

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was a young'man, \tfitli a mild, grave face, and a quiet, subdued manner. Daily contact with Suffering and sorrow had perhaps prematurely steadied and saddened his character. Merely intro-

mond ?efc it to Leonard to' ask the first questions relating to tbe condition of ber mother's health.

Tbe doctor's answer was ominously prefaced by a few polite words which were evidently intended to prepare his hearers for a less hopeful report than they might have come there expecting to reaeive. Carefully divesting the subject of all professional technicalities, he told tbem tbat bis patiqnt was undoubtedly affecied with serious disease of the heart. The exact nature of this disease herandidlv acknowledged to be a mat ter of doubt, which various medical men might decide in Various ways. Accord ing to the opinion wbioh be had himself formed from the symptoms, lie believed that the patient's malady was connected with tbe artery which conveys blosd c*ireotly from tho heart through tbe sys tem. Having fnun»l ber singularly unwilling to answer questions relating to the nature of ber past life, be could only guess that the disease was of long standing that it was originally produced by some gitat mmtal sbookr {bllowed by long wearing anxiety (of which her face showed palpable traces) and that it had been seriously aggravated by the fatigue of a journey to L-ndon, wnich she acknowledged sbe bad undertaken at time when great nervous exhaustion rendered her totally unfit to travel. Speaking according to this view of the case, it was his painful duty to toll her friends that any violent einotioii would unquestionably put her life in danger At the same time, If tbe mental uneasiness from which sbe was now suffering could be removed, and if sheooul-l be

laced in a quiet, corafortabU oetuntry among people who wsald be un remittmgly careful in keeping her composed and in suffering ber to want fr nothing, there was reason hope th«t the progress of the disease might bear rested, and thAt her life might be spared for some year* to come.

Rostinond's heart bounded st the pic ture of the future, which her fancy drsw from tb»suggestions that lay hidden in the doctor's last words. "Shean command every advantage you have mentioned, andf more, if more is required I" she interposed eagerly, before her bus band could speak again. "Ob, sir, if rest among kind friends is all that her poor weary heart wants, thank God ws can give it!"

We can give it," said Leonard, continuing the sentence for his wife, "if the doctor will sanction our making a communication to his patient, which is of a nature t« relieve ber of all anxiety, but which.it is necessary to add, sbe Is at present unite unprepared to receive."

May I ask," said the doctor, "who is to be intrusted with the responsibility cf making tbe communication you mention?"

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There are two persons who could be ihtrusted with it," answered Leonard. "One to the olH man whom you hav* seen by your patient's bedside. The

After arriving at that conclusion there was no more to be said on either side. The interview terminated and Ro«smoni and her husband hastened back to give Uncle Joseph his instructions at tbe hoteL

As they approached the door of their sitting-room they were surprised by hearing the sound of music inside. On entering, they found the old man crouched up on a stool, lis'ening to a shabby little musical box which was placed on a table close by him. and which was playing an air that Rosamond recognized immediately as the "Harti, batti' of Mozirt.

I hope you will pardon me for making music to keep myself company wbile you were away," said Unele Joseph, starting up in some little confu sion. and touching the stop of the box. "This is, if you please, of all my friends and companions, the oldest that is left. The divine Mozart, the king of all tbe composers that ever lived, gave it with his own band, madam, to my brother, when Max was a boy in tbe music school at Vienna. Since my niece left me in Cornwal, I have not bad the heart to make Mozart sing to me out of this little bit of box until to-day. Now that have made me happy abOut Sarab again, my ears ache once more for tte tiny ting-ting tbat has always the same friendly sound to my heart, travel where I may. But enough so," said the old man, placing the box in tbe leather case by his side which Rosamond had noticed there when she first saw him at Porthgenna. "I shall put back my singing-bird into his edge, and shall ask, when that is done, if you will be pleased te to tell mew hat it is that the doctor has said?"

Rosamond answered his request by relating the substance of the conyersa tion which had passed between h»r hns band and the doctor. She then, with many preparatory cautions, proceeded to instruct tv.e old man how to disclose the discovery of the Secret to his niece. She told him that the circuonstances in connection with it must be first stated, not as events tbpt bad really happened, bat as events that might be supposed to have happened. She put the words tbat be wonld havo to speak into his mouth, choosing the fewest and the plaiaest .that would answer the purpose she showed him how he might glide almost imperceptibly from referring to the discovery as a thing that might be supposed, to referring to it as a thing tbat had really happened an«l she impressed upon him, as most important of all, to keep perpetually before his niece's mind the fact that the discovery of the Secret had not awakened one bitter feeling or one resentful thought, towards her, in the minds of either of the peisons who had been so deeply interested in finding it out.

Uncle Joseph listened with unwavering attention nntil Rosamond bad done then rose from hi? seat, fixed his eyes intently on her face, and detected an ex pressio'n of anxiety and doubt in it, which be rightly interpxeted as referring to himself.

May I make you sure, before I go away, that I shall forget nothing?" he «»'ed, very earnestly. "I have no head to invent, it is true but I have something in me that can remember, and the more especially when it is for Sarah's sake. If you please, listen now, and bear if lean say to you over again all that yon have said to me

Standing before Rosamond, with something in -his look and manner strangely and touchingly suggestive of the long past days of bis childhood, and of tho time when he had said his earliest lessons at his mother's knee, he now repeated, from first to last, the Instructions that had been given to him, with a verbal exactness, with an easy readiness of memory, which, in a man of his age, was nothing less tban astonishing. "Have I kept it all as I should he asked simply wnen he had come to an end. "And may I go my ways now, and take my good news to Sarah's bedside?"

It was still necessary to detain bim, while Rosamond and her bushand consulted together on the best and safest means of following up tbe avowal tbat the secret was discovered by the announcement of their own presence in London. After some consideration, Leonard asked his wile to produce the document which the lam yer had drawn ont that morninv. to write a few lines, from bis dictation, on tbe blank side of the- paper, requesting Mrs. Jazeph to read the form or declaration, and to affix her signature to it, if she felt that It required her, in every particular, to affirm nothing that was not the exact truth. When this had been done, and when ths loaf on which Mrs. Frankland had written bad been folded outwards, so that it might be the first page to catch the eve. Le^ nerd directed that the pa per should be given to the oM man and explained to him what he was to do with it. in ths« words:

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Rosamond watched, ^im from tbe *ihdow, threading his way In ahd.otfft. tmong the tnrong of passengers on ttwtwvement, until be was lost to view. How nimbly tbe tight little figure spod. iwav out of sight! How gaily tbe u»~ •ilouded sunlight poured down on tho•heertul bustle in the street! Tbfc wbcle being of the great city basked ill the summer glory of the day all ilu mighty pulses beat hfgh: snd all myr ad voices whimpered of hopef

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