of them;" it has been discovered that some of the Earl of Lincoln's servants have been concerned in the business." And the officers immediately arrested the earl, on suspicion of having instigated them, at the same time releasing Sir Amias.

Ralph Hanslap, who had by this time recovered his coolness and self-possession, stood, looking alternately at his patron and the earl, scarcely able to distinguish which of the two was in the greatest perturbation.

Sir Amias de Crosby," said the earl, as he delivered his sword to the officers, "you, have a terrible debt to pay. You gave me good reasons, date, circumstance, mark, evidence, all backed by the security of your heretofore untarnished character, that the young man was an adventurer, the true son of that Hubert Neville, who has been as a ghost to you; and my servants, knowing how I have resented his pretensions to my daughter, may in some rash encounter have put him to

death. Such, gentlemen, I doubt not, will the case prove; but, till the matter is properly sifted, I submit myself a prisoner.'

"Give me my sword again," said Sir Amias to the officer, who held it in his hand; but Ralph Hanslap snatched it away as the earl with the others retired.

"No; this weapon you shall not at this time have ;" and the officer following his companions, Hanslap added, "I have been long in companionship with you, Sir Amias, and I thought I had your confidence, till I discovered that you had bribed Hubert Neville to do what I could have done better. Yes, Sir Amias, I chanced to be under that window in the garden on the morning when Lord Edmund set out for Scotland.The casement was open, and I overheard your conversation with Hubert Neville. But"and he paused, looking steadily at Sir Amias,

I did not think that Lord Edmund had survived the battle."

"And how has it been," cried Sir Amias, hoarsely, as if his throat and tongue were parched with thirst," that you have for such a number of years given me so many proofs of incorruptible fidelity? You have hastened on my ruin, Hanslap; you have helped me in my offences."

"I was a dog, Sir Amias, in my attachment to you; why was it that you withheld your confidence and gave it to Hubert Neville, a fellow that had not the tithe of my honesty ?-The tithe-he betrayed his master, and for that you preferred him to me."

"I then thought, Hanslap," said Sir Amias with a sigh," that you would not have served me against my brother."

"And for my probity then I was rejected. Have I not proved to you since,-have I not made you feel in the bottom of your heart, that I was a better man for your purpose than Hubert Neville ?"

"Tremendous Heaven!" exclaimed Sir Amias in amazement," and has all the seeming true service which you have so long done for me arisen out of the workings of vindictive resentment ?"

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Yes," was the stern answer;" and now 'tis at an end, and I shall enjoy the fruits of my revenge."

And with these words, says the Chronicler, Ralph Hanslap departed, leaving Sir Amias in the state of a forlorn creature within the fold and coil of that great eastern serpent which never parteth with its prey....

THE PENITENT.

all the devious mind, that hath deplored rrors past, to Virtue be restored;

, as Repentance drops the bitter tears, cy expunge the stains of other years.

A'S PROSPECTS OF THE WORLD. [X09 59 di te.

is such an austere simplicity in Naat her physical operations cannot be 1 but by the interference of a moral nor the necessary course of her moral ings altered without employing phy-ce. This apophthegm, when applied to means that, unless he can be born he shall continue throughout the herehis life much the same sort of being has been in the heretofore. And it illustrated by the conduct of Sir Amias