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"Who else besides yourself?"

"A brother drover--of men," he said slyly; "a little wrinkled felloithered to the bone, wide-eared,mate, sir, and we run sometimes, now this way, now that, but always at your service, Mr Renault"

"Are you drunk, or is it a pretense?" I demanded

"Not too drunk," he replied, with elaborate emphasis "But once this matter of Thendara is settled I hope to be so drunk that no friend of mine need be ashamed of me Good day, sir God save our country!"

"Have a care," Iaway And so I left hi it prudent in case any passer-by had observed how long I lingered

July 16th--Sir Peter not yet returned fro inthere a-thinking So echo of that naht to savor a breeze fro, unseen, far in the forest silence

Thendara! Thendara!

The naracious trisyllable stolen frouesin my ears--Thendara, Thendara--and always I hear the pine breeze high blowing and the flowing undertone of waters

July 17th--Nothing extraordinary The Hon Elsin Grey arrived from Halifax by the Swan packet to visit Sir Peter's fa cousin twice removed to Lady Coleville I have not seen her; she keeps her charaine As she comes from her kinsman, General Sir Frederick Haldi lately untethered frohteen, and vain, no doubt, of her beauty, and so, I conclude, prone to babble if flattered

Here my journal ended; I dipped my quill into the inkhorn and wrote slowly: July 18th--Nothing remarkable The Hon Elsin Grey still keeps her chareat I ah Ennis to our prisoners aboard the ships in the Wallabout, and next week shall have more for the unfortunates in the Provost, the prisons, jails, and the sugar-house-- due on the 20th inst I have ever in eneral jail delivery the instant his Excellency assaults by land and sea, but at present it is utterly hopeless, Mr Cunninghauards patrolling the common As for those wretched patriots aboard the "Hell" and on those hulks--the Falconer, Good Hope, and Scorpion--which lie southeast of the Jersey, there can be no delivery save through compassion of that Dark Jailer who one day shall free us all