the journey, to try you. You are trebly a fool, for venture now. We may find them in one of the five I am the thief and forger, and in a few moments I Refuges." Each fastened on his back a basket; shall take those proofs against the thief and forger each took in his hand a strong spiked pole; each from your insensible body."

girded under his arms a looped end of a stout rope, The entrapped man tried to throw off the lethargy, so that they were tied together. but its fatal hold upon him was so sure that, ever. Suddenly the dogs desisted from their gambols in while he heard those words, he stupidly wondered the snow, stood looking down the ascent, put their which of them had been wounded, and whose blood noses up, put their noses down, became greatly exit was that he saw sprinkled on the snow. . cited, anu broke into a deep, loud bay together.

* What have I done to you," he asked, heavily The two men looked in the faces of two dogs. and thickly, “ that you should be — 50 base - a The two dogs looked, with at least equal intellimurderer ?"

gence, in the faces of the two men. “Done to me? You would have destroyed me, "Au secours, then! Help! To the rescue !" but that you have come to your journey's end. Your cried the two men. The two dogs, with a glad, cursed activity interposed between me, and the time deep. generous bark, bounded away. I had counted on in which I might have replaced "Two more mad ones!" said the men, stricken the money. Done to me? You have come in my motionless, and looking away into the moonlight. way, - not once, not twice, but again and again “Is it possible in such weather! And one of them and again. Did I try to shake you off in the be a woman!" ginning, or no? You were not to be sbaken off. Each of the dogs had the corner of a woman's Therefore you die here."

dress in its mouth, and drew ber along. She sono Vendale tried to think coherently, tried to speak dled their heads as she came up, and she came up coherently, tried to pick up the iron-shod staff he through the snow with an accustomed tread. Not so had let fall; failing to touch it, tried to stagger on the large man with her, who was spent and winded. without its aid. All in vain, all in vain! He stum- “ Dear guides, dear friends of travellers! I am bied, and fell heavily forward on the brink of the of your country. We seek two gentlemen crossdeep chasın.

ing the Pass, who should bave reached the Hospice Stupefied, dozing, unable to stand upon his feet. this evening." a veil before his eyes, his sense of hearing deadened, “They have reached it, ma'amselle." he made such a vigorous rally that, supporting him- " Thank Ileaven! O thank licaven !" self on his hands, he saw bis enemy standing calmly " But, unhappily, they have gone on again. We over him, and heard him speak.

are setting forth to seek them even now. We had * You call me murderer," said Obenreizer, with to wait until the Tourmente passed. It has been a grim laugh. “ The name matters very little. fearful up here." But at least I have set my life against yours, for I “Dear guides, dear friends of travellers! Let me am surrounded by dangers, and may never make go with you. Let me go with you, for the love of my way out of this place. The Tourmente is rising God! One of those gentlemen is to be my husagain. The snow is on the whirl. I must have the band. I love him, oso dearly. Oso dearly! papers now. Every moment has my life in it." You see I am not saint, you see I am not tired. I

* Stop!” cried Vendale, in a terrible voice, stag- am born a peasant-girl. I will show you that I know gering up with a last flash of Gre breaking out of well how to fasten myself to your ropes. I will do hinn, and clutching the thievish hands at his breast, it with my own hands. I will swear to be brave and in both of his. « Stop! Stand away from me! good. But let me go with you, let me go with you! God bless my Marguerite! Happily she will never If any mischance should have befallen him, my know how I died. Stand off from me and let me love would find him, when nothing else could. On look at your murderous face. Let it reinind me my knees, dear friends of travellers! By the love of something - left to say."

your dear mothers had for your fathers !" The sight of him fighting so hard for his senses, The good rough fellows were moved. “ After all." and the doubt whether he might not for the instant they murmured to one another, " she speaks but the be possessed by the strength of a dozen men, kept truth. She knows the ways of the mountains. See bis opponent still. Wildly glaring at him, Vendale bow marvellously she has come here! But as to faltered out the broken words,

Monsieur there, ma'amselle ?" " It shall not be — the trust of the dead - be- " Dear Mr. Joey," said Marguerite, addressing trayed by me - reputed parents — misinherited him in his own tongue,"you will remain at the fortune - see to it!"

house, and wait for me ; will you not ?" As his heart dropped on bis breast, and be stum- “If I know'd which of you two recommended it," bleil on the brink of the chasm as before, the thievish growled Joey Laille, cying the two men with great hands went once more, quick and busy, to his breast. indignation, “ I'd fight you for sixpence, and give lle made a convnlsive attempt to cry "No!" des- you half a crown towarıls your expenses. No, mix, perately rolled himself over into the gulf; and sank I'll stick by you as long as there's any sticking left away fro:n his enemy's touch, like a phantom in a in me, and I 'll die for you when I can't do better." dreadful dream.

The state of the moon rendering it highly important

that no time should be lost, and the dogs showing The mountain storm raged again, and passed signs of great uneasiness, the two men quickly took again. The awful mountain-voices died away, the their resolution. The rope that yoked them to moon rose, and the soft and silent snow fell.

gether was exchanged for a longer one; the party Two men and two large dogs came out at the were secured, Marguerite second, and the Cellardoor of the flospice. Tbe men looked carefully map last; and they set out for the Refuges. The around them, and up at the sky. The dogs rolled actual distance of those places was nothing; the in the snow, and took it into their mouths, and cast whole Give and the next llospice to boot, being with it up with their paws.

in two miles; but the ghastly way was whitened out One of the men said to the other: « We may and sheeted over.

They made no miss in reaching the Gallery where up, or die with him. I love him passionately. Can the two had taken sbelter. The second storm of I say more?" wind and snow had so wildly swept over it since, They turned to her companion, but be was lying that their tracks were gone. But the dogs went to senseless on the snow. and fro with their noses down, and were confident. « Lower me down to bim," she said, taking two The party stopping, bowever, at the farther arch, little kegs they had brought, and hanging them where the second storm had been especially furious, about her," or I will dash myself to pieces! I am and where the drift was deep, the dogs became a peasant, and I know no giddiness or fear; and troabled, and went about and about, in quest of a this is nothing to me, and I passionately love him last purpose.

Lower me down !” The great abyss being known to lie on the right, “Ma'amselle, ma’amselle, he must be dying 01 they wandered too much to the left, and had to re-dead." gan the way with infinite labor through a deep field - Dying or dead, my husband's head shall lie upon of snow. The leader of the line had stopped it, and my breast, or I will dash myself to pieces." was taking note of the landmarks, when one of the They yielded, overborne. With such precautions dogs fell to tearing up the snow a little before them. as their skill and the circumstances admitted, they Adrancing and stooping to look at it, thinking that let her slip from the summit, guiding herself dowr some one might be overwhelmed there, they saw the precipitous icy wall with ber hand, and they that it was stained, and that the stain was red. lowered down, and lowered down, and lowered

The other dog was now seen to look over the down, until the cry came up: “Epongh!” brink of the gulf, with his forelegs straightened out, “Is it really be, and is be dead ? " they called les be should fall into it, and to tremble in every down, looking over.

b. Then the dog who bad found the stained The cry came up: “ He is insensible; but his sou joined him, and then they ran to and fro, dis- heart beats. It beats against mine." tressed and whining. Finally, they both stopped on “How does he lie ? * the brink together, and setting up their heads, The cry came up: “Upon a ledge of ice. It ha: bowled dolefully.

thawed beneath him, and it will thaw beneath me There is some one lying below," said Marguerite. Hasten. If we die, I am content." - I think so," said the foremost man. * Stand One of the two men hurried off with the dogs at vell inwar, the two last, and let us look over.” such topmost speed as he could make; the other set

The last man kindled two torches from his basket, up the lighted torches in the snow, and applied him ad handed them forward. The leader taking one, self to recovering the Englishman. Much snow and Marguerite the other, they looked down; now chafing and some brandy got him on bis legs, but bading the torches, now moving them to the right delirious and quite unconscious where he was. or left, now raising them, now depressing them, as The watch remained upon the brink, and his cry bocalight far below contended with black shadows. went down continually : “Courage! They will soon A piercing cry from Marguerite broke a long silence. be here. How goes it?" And the cry came up

-My God! On a projecting point, where a wall - His heart still beats against mine. I warm bim in cite stretches forward over the torrent, I see a hu- my arms. I have cast off the rope, for the ice melt: han form!”

under us, and the rope would separate me from him | = Where, ma'amselle, where ?”

but I am not afraid." - See, there! On the shelf of ice below the dogs!” The moon went down behind the mountain-tops,

The leader, with a sickened aspect, drew in ward, and all the abyss lay in darkness. The cry went asd they were all silent. But they were not all in- down: “ How goes it?” The ery came up : “ We active, for Marguerite, with swift and skilful fingers, are sinking lower, but his heart still beats against bad detached both herself and him from the rope in mine." a few seconds.

At length, the eager barking of the dogs, and a Show me the baskets. These two are the only fare of light upon the snow, proclaimed that help

was coming on. Twenty or thirty men, lamps, - The only ropes here, ma'amselle; but at the torches, litters, ropes, blankets, wood to kindle a Hopie

great fire, restoratives and stimulants, came in fast. Ir be is alive - I know it is my lover - he will The dogs ran from one man to another, and from be dead before you can return. Dear Guides ! this thing to that, and ran to the edge of the abyss, Blessed friends of travellers! Look at nie. Watch dumbly entreating Speed, speed, speed ! my bains. If they falter or go wrony, make me The cry went down : “ Thanks to God, all is Foar prisoner by (orce. If they are steady and go ready. How goes it ?". muhr, belp me to save bim !"

The cry came up: “ We are sinking still, and we She ginled herself with a cord under the breast are deadly cold. Ilis heart no longer beats against ularus, she formed it into a kind of jacket, she mine. Let no one come down, to add to our weight. desit mto knots, she laid its end side by side with | Lower the rope only." the end of the other cord, she twisted and twined! The fire was kiuuled high, a great glare of torches Dec (wo together, she knotted them together, she set lighted the sides of the precipice, lamps were lowther foot upon the knots, she strained them, she held | ured, a strong rope was lowered. She could be seen ciu for the two men to strain at.

passing it round bim, and making it secure. - She is inspired," they said to one another.

The cry came up into a deathly silence : - Raise ! - By the Almighty's mercy!" she exclaimed. Softly!" They could see her diminished figure • You could know that I am by far the lightest here. I shrink, as he was swung into the air. Gure we the brandy and the wine, and lower me They gave no shout when some of them laid him S o whun. Then go for assistance and a stronger on a litter, and others lowered another strong rope. mu You see that when it is lowered to me - The cry again came up into a deathly silence :

und at this about me now - I can make it fost anu - Raisel Suilly!" But when they caught her at it to his body. Alive or dead, I will bring him the brink, then they shouted, then they wept, then they gave thanks to Heaven, then they kissed her “Do me one last favor, sir,” he said, when he feet, then they kissed her dress, then the dogs ca- raised his eyes. “Do not act on impulse. Thus ressed her, licked her icy hands, and with their hon- far, you have only a general knowledge of my posiest faces warmed her frozen bosom!

tion. Hear the case for and against me, in its deShe broke from them all, and sank over him on tails, before you take me into your office. Let my his litter, with both her loving hands upon the heart claim on your benevolence be recognized by your that stood still.

sound reason as well as by your excellent heart. In that case, I may hold up my head against the bit

terest of my enemies, and build myself a new repuACT IV.

tation on the ruins of the character I have lost." THE CLOCK-LOCK.

"As you will,” said Maître Voigt. “ You speak

well, my son. You will be a fine lawyer one of The pleasant scene was Neuchâtel; the pleasant these days.” month was April; the pleasant place was a notary's “The details are not many," pursued Obenreizer. office; the pleasant person in it was the notary: a “My troubles begin with the accidental death of my rosy, hearty, handsome old man, chief notary of late travelling companion, my lost dear friend, Mr. Neuchâtel, known far and wide in the canton as Vendale.” Maitre Voigt. Professionally and personally, the “Mr. Vendale," repeated the notary. “Just so. notary was a popular citizen. His innumerable I have heard and read of the name, several times kindnesses and his innumerable oddities had for within these two months. The name of the unforyears made him one of the recognized public char- tunate English gentleman who was killed on the acters of the pleasant Swiss town. His long brown Simplon, When you got that scar upon your cheek frock-coat and his black skullcap were among the and neck.” institutions of the place; and he carried a snuff-box "- From my own knife," said Obenreizer, touchwhich, in point of size, was popularly believed to being what must have been an ugly gash at the time without a parallel in Europe.

of its infliction. There was another person in the notary's office, “From your own knife," assented the notary, not so pleasant as the notary. This was Obenreizer." and in trying to save him. Good, good, good.

An oddly pastoral kind of office it was, and one That was very good. Vendale. Yes. I have sevthat would never have answered in England. It eral times, lately, thought it droll that I should once stood in a neat back yard, fenced off from a pretty have had a client of tbat name." flower-garden. Goats browsed in the door-way, and “But the world, sir," returned Obenreizer, " is so a cow was within half a dozen feet of keeping com- small !” Nevertheless, he made a mental note that pany with the clerk. Maître Voigt's room was a the notary had once had a client of that name. bright and varnished little room, with panelled "As I was saying, sir, the death of that dear travwalls, like a toy-chamber. According to the seasons elling comrade begins my troubles. What follows? of the year, roses, sunflowers, hollyhocks, peeped in I save myself. I go down to Milan. I am received at the windows. Maitre Voigt's bees hummed with coldness by Defresnier and Company. Shortly through the office all the summer, in at this window afterwards, I am discharged by Defresnier and Comand out at that, taking it frequently in their day's pany. Why? They give no reason why. I ask, work, as if honey were to be made from Maître do they assail my bonor? No answer. I ask, what Voigt's sweet disposition. A large musical box on is the imputation against me? No answer. I ask, the chimney-piece often trilled away at the Over- where are their proofs against me? No answer. I ture to Fra Diavolo, or a selection from William ask, what am I to think? The reply is, .M. ObenTell, with a chirruping liveliness that had to be reizer is free to think what he will. What M. Obenstopped by force on the entrance of a client, and ir- reizer thinks, is of no importance to Defresnier and repressibly broke out again the moment his back Company.' And that is all.” was turned.

"Perfectly. That is all," assented the notary, "Courage, courage, my good fellow !” said Maitre taking a large pinch of snuff. Voigt, patting Obenreizer on the knee, in a fatherly “But is that enough, sir ?" and comforting way. “ You will begin a new life “That is not enough,” said Maître Voigt. “The to-morrow morning in my office here."

House of Defresnier are my fellow-townsmen, Obenreizer - dressed in mourning and subdued much respected, much esteemed, - but the House of in manner — lifted his hand, with a white handker- | Defresnier must not silently destroy a man's charac chief in it, to the region of his heart. “ The grati-ter. You can rebut assertion. Bat how can you tude is here,” he said. “But the words to express rebut silence ?" it are not here."

"Your sense of justice, my dear patron," answered "Ta-ta-ta! Don't talk to me about gratitude !” Obenreizer, states in a word the cruelty of the said Maitre Voigt. “I hate to see a man oppressed. case. Does it stop there? No. For, what follows I see you oppressed, and I hold out my hand to you upon that?" by instinct. Besides, I am not too old yet to re- " True, my poor boy," said the notary, with a member my young days. Your father sent me my comforting nod or two; “ your ward rebels upon first client. (It was on a question of half an acre that." of vineyard that seldom bore any grapes.) Do I owe “Rebels is too soft a word," retorted Obenreizer. nothing to your father's son? I owe him a debt “My ward revolts from me with horror. My ward of friendly obligation, and I pay it to you. That's defies me. My ward withdraws herself from my rather neatly expressed, I think,” added Maître authority, and takes shelter (Madame Dor with ber) Voigt, in high good-humor with himself. “Permit in the house of that English lawyer, Mr. Bintrey, me to reward my own merit with a pinch of snuff!" who replies to your summons to her to submit her

Obenreizer dropped his eyes to the ground, as self to my authority, that she will not do so." though he were not even worthy to see the notary “- And who afterwards writes," said the notary, take snuff.

moving his large snuff-box to look among the papers underneath it for the letter, " that he is coming to eight when the preliminary instructions were deconfer with me."

clared to be complete. "Indeed ?” replied Obenreizer, rather checked. “I will show you over the house and the offices," Well, sir. Have I no legal rights ?”

said Maître Voigt, “but I must put away these pa“ Assuredly, my poor boy,” returned the notary. pers first. They come from the municipal author“ All but felons have their legal rights."

ities, and they must be taken special care of.” " And who calls me felon?” said Obenreizer, Obenreizer saw his chance, bere, of finding out fiercely.

the repository in which his employer's private pa“No one. Be calm under your wrongs. If the pers were kept. House of Defresnier would call you felon, indeed, “ Can't I save you the trouble, sir ?” he asked. we should know how to deal with them.”

“ Can't I put those documents away under your diWhile saying these words, he had handed Bin rections ? trey's very short letter to Obenreizer, who now read Maître Voigt laughed softly to himself; closed the it and gave it back.

portfolio in which the papers had been sent to him ; “In saying," observed Obenreizer, with recovered handed it to Obenreizer. composure, " that he is coming to confer with you,. “Suppose you try," he said. “ All my papers of this English lawyer means that he is coming to deny importance are kept yonder.” my authority over my ward.”

He pointed to a heavy oaken door, thickly stud*You think so ?”

ded with nails, at the lower end of the room. Ap“I am sure of it. I know him. He is obstinate proaching the door with the portfolio, Obenreizer and contentious. You will tell me, my dear sir, discovered to his astonishment that there were no whether my authority is unassailable, until my ward means whatever of opening it from the outside. is of age ?”

There was no handle, no bolt, no key, and (climax Absolutely unassailable."

of passive obstruction !) no keyhole. “I will enforce it. I will make her submit herself “There is a second door to this room ? ” said to it. For," said Obenreizer, changing his angry Obenreizer, appealing to the notary. tone to one of grateful submission, “I owe it to you, “ No,” said Maitre Voigt. “Guess again.” sir; to you, who have so confidingly taken an in “ There is a window ?” jured man under your protection, and into your “ Nothing of the sort. The window has been employment."

bricked up. The only way in is the way by that Make your mind easy," said Maitre Voigt. “No door. Do you give it up?" cried Maitre Voigt, in more of this now, and no thanks! Be here to-mor- high triumph. * Listen, my good fellow, and tell row morning, before the other clerk comes, — be- me if you hear nothing inside ? ” tween seven and eight. You will find me in this Obenreizer listened for a moment, and started room; and I will myself initiate you in your work. I back from the door. Go away! go away! I have letters to write. Il “I know !” he exclaimed. “I heard of this won't hear a word more.”

when I was apprenticed here at the watchmaker's. Dismissed with this generous abruptness, and sat- Perrin Brothers have finished their famous clockisfied with the favorable impression he had left on lock at last, – and you have got it.” the old man's mind, Obenreizer was at leisure to “Bravo!" said Maitre Voigt. “ The clock-lock revert to the mental note he had made that Maître it is! There, my son! There, you have one more Voigt once had a client whose name was Vendale. of what the good people of this town call, · Daddy

"I ought to know England well enough by this Voigt's follies. With all my heart! Let those time"; so his meditations ran, as he sat on a bench laugh who win. No thief can steal my keys. No in the yard; "and it is not a name I ever encoun- burglar can pick my lock. No power on earth, tered there, except” he looked involuntarily over his short of a battering-ram or a barrel of gunpowder, shoulder — " as his name. Is the world so small that can move that door, till my little sentinel inside I cannot get away from him, even now when he is my worthy friend who goes Tick, Tick,' as I tell dead? He confessed at the last that he had be- him — says, · Open!' The big door obeys the little, trayed the trust of the dead, and misinherited a for. Tick, Tick, and the little Tick, Tick, obeys me. tune. And I was to see to it. And I was to stand That!” cried Daddy Voigt, snapping his fingers, off, that my face might remind him of it. Why my “ for all the thieves in Christendom !” face, unless it concerned me? I am sure of his “May I see it in action ?” asked Obenreizer. words, for they have been in my ears ever since. “ Pardon my curiosity, dear sir! You know that I Can there be anything bearing on them, in the keep-was once a tolerable worker in the clock trade.” ing of this old idiot? Anything to repair my for- “Certainly you shall see it in action," said Maître tunes, and blacken his memory? He dwelt upon Voigt. “What is the time now? One minute to my earliest remembrances, that night at Basle. eight. Watch, and in one minute you will see the Why, unless he had a purpose in it?"

door open of itself." Maitre Voigt's two largest he-goats were butting in one minute, smoothly and slowly and silently, at him to butt him out of the place, as if for that dis- as if invisible hands had set it free, the heavy door, respectful mention of their master. So he got up opened inward, and disclosed a dark chamber beand left the place. But he walked alone for a long yond. On three sides, shelves filled the walls, from time on the border of the lake, with his head floor to ceiling. Arranged on the shelves, were drooped in deep thought.

rows upon rows of boxes made in the pretty inlaid Between seven and eight next morning he pre- woodwork of Switzerland, and bearing inscribed on sented himself again at the office. He found the their fronts (for the most part in fanciful colored notary ready for him, at work on some papers which letters) the names of the notary's clients. had come in on the previous evening. In a few Maitre Voigt lighted a taper, and led the way clear words, Maitre Voigt explained the routine of into the room. the office, and the duties Obenreizer would be ex- “You shall see the clock," he said, proudly. “I pected to perform. It still wanted five minutes to possess the greatest curiosity in Europe. It is only

a privileged few whose eyes can look at it. I give public festival. Nobody knew what hail become of the privilege to your good fatber's son, - you shall him. It was believed that he had slipped away for be one of the favored few who enter the room with a solitary walk. me. See! here it is, on the right-hand wall at the The house and offices had been closed but a few side of the door."

minutes, when the door of a shining wardrobe, in * An ordinary clock," exclaimed Obenreizer. the notary's shining room, opened, and Obenreizer "No! Not an ordinary clock It has only one stepped out. Ile walked to a window, unclosed the hand."

shutters, satisfied himself that he could escape un“Aba!" said Maitre Voigt. « Not an ordinary seen by way of the garden, turned back into the clock, my friend. No, no. That one hand goes room, and took his place in the notary's easy-chair. round the dial. As I put it, so it regulates the Ile was locked up in the house, and there were five hour at which the door shall open. See! The hours to wait before eight o'clock came. hand points to eight. At eight the door opened, as He wore his way through the five hours: someyou saw for yourself."

times reading the books and newspapers that lay on * Does it open more than once in the four-and- the table, sometimes thinking, sometimes walking to twenty hours?" asked Ohenreizer.

and fio. Sunset came on. Ile closed the window. “ More than once?" repeater 'the rotary, with shutters before he kindled a light. The canille great scorn. “ You don't know, my good friend, lighted, and the time drawing nearer and nearer, Tick, Tick! Ile will open the door as often as he sat, watch in hand, with his eyes on the oaken I ask him. All he wants is his directions, and he door. gets them here. Look below the dial. Here is a At eight, smoothly and softly and silently the balf circle of steel let into the wall, and here is a door opened. hand (called the regulator) that travels round it, One after another, he read the names on the just as my hand chooses. Notice, if you please, that outer rows of boxes. No such name as Vendale ! there are figures to guide me on the half circle He removed the outer row, and looked at the row of steel. Figure I. means: Open once in the four- behind. These were okler boxes, and shabbier and-twenty lours. Figure II, ineans: Open twice ; boxes. The four first that be examined, were inand so on the end. I set the regulator every scribed with French and German names. The morning, after I have read my letters, and when I fifth bore a name which was alınost illegible. lle know what my day's work is to be. Would you brought it out into the room, and examined it like to see me set it now? What is to-lay ? closely. There, covered thickly with time-stains Wednesulay. Good! This is the day of our ritle- and dust, was the name: “ Vendale." club; there is little business to do; I grant a half The key hung to the box by a string. He unholiday. No work here today, after three o'clock. locked the box, took out four loose papers that were Let us first put away this portfolio of municipal in it, spread them open on the table, and began to papers. There! No need to trouble Tick-Tick to read them. He had not so occupied a minute, open the door antal eight to-morrow. Good! I when his face fell from its expression of eagerness leave the dial-hand at eight; I put back the regu- and avidity, to one of haggard astonishment and lator to " I."; 1 close the door; and closed the door disappointment. But, after a little consideration, remains, past all opening by anybody, till to-mor-he copied the papers. He then replaced the papers, row morning at eight."

replaced the box, closed the door, extinguisbed the Obenreizer's quickness instantly saw the means candle, and stole away. by which he might make the clock-lock betray its As his murderous and thievish footfall passed out master's confidence, and place its master's papers of the garlen, the steps of the notary and some one at his disposal.

accompanying him stopped at the front door of the - Stop, sir!” he cried, at the moment when the house. The lamps were lighted in the little street, notary was closing the door. Don't I see some and the notary bad his door-key in his hand. thing moving among the boxes, - on the floor · Pray do not pass my bonse, Mr. Bintrey," he

said. "Do me the honor to come in. It is one of (Maitre Voigt turned his back for a moment to our town half holidays, our Tir - but my people look. In that moment, Obenreizer's ready hand will be back directly. It is droll that you should put the regulator on, from the figure * I." to the fig. ask your way to the Hotel of me. Let us eat and ure * II.* Unless the notary looked again at the drink before you go there." half circle of steel, the door would open at eight "Thank you : not to-night," said Bintrey. “ Shall that evening, as well as at eight next morning, and I come to you at ten to-morrow?". nobody but Obenreizer would know it.)

I shall be enchanted, sir, to take so early an " There is nothing!" said Maitre Voigt. * Your opportunity of redressing the wrongs of my injured troubles have shaken your nerves, my son. Some client," returned the good notary. shadow thrown by my taper; or sotne poor little "Yes," retorted Bintrey; " your injured client is beetle, who lives among the old lawyer's secrets, all very well-bat- a word in your ear." running away from the light. Hark! I hear your Ile whispered to the notary, and walked off. fellow clerk in the office. To work! to work ! and When the notary's bousekeeper came bome, she build to-day the first step that leads to your new found him standing at his door motionless, with tbe fortunes!"

key still in bis band, and the door unopened. He goodl-humore-lly pushed Obenreizer out be fore him; extinguished the taper, with a last fond

OBEXREIZER'S VICTORY. glance at his clock which passed harmlessly over The scene shifts again — to the foot of the Simthe regulator beneath; and closed the oaken door. plon, on the Swiss site

At three, the office was shut up. The notary In one of the dreary rooms of the dreary little and everybody in the notary's employment, with inn at Brieg, Mr. Bintrey and Maitre Voigt sit toone exception, went to see the rifle-shooting. Oben-gether at a professional council of two Mr. Binreizer bau pleaded that he was not in spirits for a trey was searching in his despatcb-box. Maitre

there?