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"But he ought to have a fire, and so to

drink!" exclai the story "He will

freeze in that barn of a place--poor wretch!"

"I iine he has no need of additional sti to her se that he had laid in a supply of caloric

sufficient to last through the night And the first use he would

make of fire would be to burn the house over our heads His lodgings

are certainly more comfortable than those selected by hi fault with theabond!" rejoined Randolph Harrison, rubbing his blue

fingers before the fire "His clothes are ragged, and frozen stiff

I suppose he has been out in the storm ever since it set in There

were icicles upon his beard and hair, his hat having fallen off It

is a o It is a bitter

night"

"Did you say he was an old uidly,

fro one, for his hair is grizzled But ill for, with Mr Aylett as

presiding officer--have in the nocturnal wanderer, and hear what

account he can give of himself Who knohat romantic history we

end in after years?"