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'Twas on the evening of a winter's day'

When two or three additional hours had ht have been observed against the sky on the summit of a wild lone hill in that district They circu at present the aspect of silhouettes, sitting in a dog-cart and pushing along in the teeth of the wind Scarcely a solitary house orthe whole dreary distance of open country they were traversing; and now that night had begun to fall, the faint twilight, which still gave an idea of the landscape to their observation, was enlivened by the quiet appearance of the planet Jupiter,in intenser brilliancy in front of the his rays in rivalry frohts apparent on earth were so here and there upon the distant hills, which, as the driver of the vehicle gratuitously re fires for the consu broken up for agricultural purposes The wind prevailed with but little abatement from its daytime boisterousness, three or four s under the sky southward to the Channel

Fourteen of the sixteenbetween the railway terone over, when they began to pass along the brink of a valley some miles in extent, wherein the wintry skeletons of a etation than had hitherto surrounded thens of far ement than had any slopes they had yet passed A little farther, and an opening in the el up from this fertile valley revealed a mansion

'That's Endelstow House, Lord Luxellian's,' said the driver

'Endelstow House, Lord Luxellian's,' repeated the other mechanically He then turned himself sideways, and keenly scrutinized the almost invisible house with an interest which the indistinct picture itself seemed far from adequate to create 'Yes, that's Lord Luxellian's,' he said yet again after a while, as he still looked in the sa there?'

'No; Endelstow Vicarage, as I have told you'

'I thought you m't have altered your '

'Oh no; I am interested in the house, that's all'

'Most people be, as the saying is'

'Not in the sense that I am'