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She resolved to say herprayers with full attention so soon as the church was empty, and h her pulses were still throbbing and her head aching

In the far distance she heard the Co, and then followed a gospel of love and comfort She could not catch every word, but there was a sense of pro heart, for the first tiripe of deadly terror

The sers, not that she could have any account of it, nor preserved any connected memory, but it was full of the words, Faith, Love, Sacrifice, so that they were borne in on her ear and thought Heavenly Love surrounding as with an atracious the Lord is," believing that which cannot be seen, and therefore having it revealed to their in the only real life

This was the chief thought that penetrated to her mind as she crouched on the straw hassock behind the pew, and shared unseen in the blessing of peace No one saw her as the hob-nailed shoes trooped out of church, and soon she was entirely alone, kneeling still in her hiding-place, and whispering half-aloud the onification had, she felt, been neglected for a long, long tie mysterious voices and caresses had come to charm and terrify her, and when her very perplexity should have warned her to cling closer to the aid of her Heavenly Father Vague yearnings, uplifted feelings, discontents, and little tes, and blinded her eyes And through it all, her heart began to ache and long for tidings of hi and who had ventured and suffered so much for her, nay, who had started into a moment's life for her protection! All the tumult of resentment at the deception practised on her fell on the uncle rather than the nephew; and in spite of this long year of tender kindness and consideration from the recluse, there was a certain consideration fro herself bound not to him but to the youth whose endearments returned with a flood of tender remembrance And she had fled just as he had claimed her as his wife, had fled just as he had clai whether he died of the injury she had caused his had wound thean to pull her back