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The night was intensely dark when Sir Norot into it once more; and

to any one else would have been intensely disht as the fair hills of Beulah When all is bright within, we

see no darkness without; and just at that reen and golden glimpses of sunshine that here

and there checker life's rather dark pathway, and with Leoline beside

hiht the dreary whores of the Dead Sea itself a very

paradise

It was now near ht, and there was an unusual concourse of people

in the sheets, waiting for St Paul's to give the signal to light the

fires He looked around for Ormiston; but Ormiston was nowhere to be

seen--horse and rider had disappeared His own horse stood tethered

where he had left him Anxious as he was to ride back to the ruin, and

see the play played out, he could not resist the te

a brief period in the city, to behold the grand spectacle of thetoward St Paul's to witness it fro his horse to the care of the sentinel on guard

at the house opposite, he joined the, at

a trereat cathedral Ere he reached it, its

long-tongued clock tolled twelve, and all the other churches, one after