that was much more dignified than his lan guage.

"I am Nick Chinnery, my Lord, that made the peppered devil last night, and set fire to the Nantz, and sang the song of Joan and the Parson, and mimicked the drunken fidler. Don't you remember me, my Lord ?".

"No, fellow!" bawled Jeffreys, with a still fiercer look; "I can never have remembered thee, unless when I had forgotten myself. Avaunt! I know thee not."

The discomfited Chinnery slunk away, glad to escape from a voice and look that were equally terrific; and his Lordship, receiving a message from a gentleman who requested to speak with him upon a confidential and important affair, desired the servant to conduct him to some private apartment, where they might be safe from interruption. The other chambers being occupied, the parties were accordingly ushered into Helen's painting-room, and the business upon which they met being presently dispatched, the Judge soon after took leave of his host, called for his guards, mounted

his state-coach, into which Colonel Kirk fol lowed him, and drove away from Harpsden Hall, to the inexpressible relief of Reuben and his two young protectresses. It will not im peach the filial affection of the latter, considering the heartless distance at which their father had always held them, and the peril to all parties that resulted from his presence, if we add, that they were both gratified when he suddenly set off upon his return to London; to which place he was summoned by some of those petty ministerial intrigues in which he was perpetually dabbling, although the ruling powers saw through his selfish motives, and despised his officious zeal. The Captain had already betaken himself to his command at Lyme, and thus Harpsden Hall was restored to the quiet it had enjoyed before the arrival of these unwel

come visitants.

Goldingham was the first person who presented himself after their departure. From the expression of Helen's eye, he had seen at the time that she was privy to Reuben's concealment; and though he felt the deep responsi

bility he should incur by the smallest interference, especially after the ferocious menaces of Jeffreys, his curiosity as well as his interest in Reuben's fate determined him to pay a visit to Lady Trevanian, in the hope of procuring a separate interview with Helen, and obtaining some clue to the mystery of his nephew's present disguise and future plans. In the former expectation he was not disappointed; he was enabled to converse apart with Helen, but she would only assure him that she was no party, in the first instance, to Mr. Apsley's assuming Lord Trevanian's livery; that another person had revealed to her who he was; that she was aware of the penalty of death to which she was liable, and resolved to encounter it rather than betray him; but that there was no necessity for involving others in the vital responsibility that attached to herself, especially as she had already supplied him with money, which was all that Goldingham himself could do for his assistance. "Let this be the last time that we ever open our lips to one another upon the subject," said Helen, "until we

can both do so with perfect safety, and when that is the case, but not until then, I will consent to your repaying me the loan that I have advanced to Mr. Apsley.

"Madam, I respect you with all my heart and soul, for you are a woman of noble feeling, and, what is much more rare, you are a woman of business, Madam; hem!" Although he thought this the very highest eulogy he could bestow, Goldingham was proceeding with other acknowledgments; but as their object had withdrawn, curtsying, and with her finger to her lips, he returned to his own house, determined not to leave to her the whole responsibi lity, which she so generously volunteered to assume; but to prepare some plan, if possible, for his nephew's escape, and contrive to give him information of it as soon as it should be matured. What this was to be it would require time and thought to decide, but he had an unbounded confidence in the omnipotence of money; and knowing his own wealth, he did not by any means despair of succeeding in his

purpose.

"

Ever prone to yield to the impulse of the moment, Reuben was flattering himself upon his present comparative security, abandoning himself to the happiness of living under the same roof with Helen, and indulging in visionary hopes and reveries, which his critical plight by no means warranted, when a new danger was threatening him, which, but for the watchful solicitude and prompt assistance of Grace, the Anabaptist girl, might have quickly given him a prison instead of Harpsden Hall, for the scene of his delusive dreams. His inexpertness in his office, his holding himself aloof from the kitchen society, as well as his superior manners, conversation, and appearance, had combined with a variety of minute circumstances, to excite suspicion in two of his fellowservants, one of whom procured a list of the fugitives for whose apprehension a reward had been offered, and studied it with his comrade, in the hope of discovering, by the descriptions it contained, whether the pretended butler might not be identified as a proscribed rebel. Though they could not succeed in this object,