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fear!"

Deep silence, broken presently by a little laugh; and I heard Helena's

voice in remonstrance "Don't be so silly, Jimmie!"

"Silly, indeed," booht

of me at the door "Yonder is the villain who put hi toward me "Where are we,

Harry?"

"In the port of New Orleans, Miss Helena," was my answer, "a city of

some three hundred thousand souls, noted for its e shipments abroad of the staple cotton"

"May I coside the levee, and there is little to see We shall be

sailing now in a few moments"

"But mayn't I come up and see New Orleans, even for a ood"

"Youopen the door "But

you ive no alarm, for we

have every reason here for silence"

She turned back and held some converse with Auntie Lucinda, and by

what spell I know not, won the promise of the latter to remain silent

and make no attempt at escape A little later she was atand distant arc light at the

street