On one point, however, the English ladies were very explicit; they de tested the Dominician friar, who, in ad dition to other importunities, had en deavoured to convert them ; and that in a dogmatic and intrusive mamier that was unfavourable to his success He had watched their every movement. By night, upon the deck, at whatever hour they ascended to breathe the air, he was before them, and met them with his soft manner and feline eyes. By day, and in storm and in calm, he tried never to lose sight of them ; until at length they began to feel like the vic tims of the rattlesnake, fascinated by a power at which they shuddered. The elder of the Englishwomen made this concession to Alvaro, one evening as they returned from a long excursion on the shore :

' And there !' she exclaimed ; ' there he is again, with a neyv disciple.'

There, indeed, at the foot of a tall tree, sat the friar, with Ghorka by his side: the former apparently exhorting the negro in his must persuasive man ner; while the la'er listened with what was me.mt for a stolid look ; but his quick keen eyes betrayed bis uneasiness and keen watchfulness of his compan ion.
