BY THE AUTHOR OF "DENNIS DONNE," "NO ALTERNATIVE," &C, &C. Chapter L. THE BRIDE'S TRIUMPHS. There is no vain repining in the Forest family when these tidings are told. There is a vast deal of unpleasantness in the position, but not a particle of pain. "You're the gainer in every way; in pocket as well as respectability," Gertrude says to her brother, " but I am an actual loser, for I shall have to give up what I have come to look upon as entirely my own." "You don't mean to tell me that you hanker after the jewels the blackguard gave you, do you ?" he asks in disgust. " They were the only things that made me tolerate the sight of the man," she says with careless candour. " Think, if I would have married him for the sake of them, what I shall feel at giving them up. " "Why, I should think you're cheaply off the Graham with the loss of the gems," Frank says laughing. "As for myself, I forgive Charlotte freely for all her offences against me, in consideration of the awful punishment she'll endure in being his wife." "He's quite good enough for her, at any rate," Gertrude says, with a brief flash of loyalty towards her faithless lover. " We can't affect to think that either one of them has been sacrificed in the trans action." To his supreme annoyance, the Granges will insist on regarding, treating, and speaking of Frank as a greatly injured and much-to-be-pitied man. Now that she is safely off their hands, and not likely ever again to be an expense to them, Charlotte is regarded very much more affectionately by her brother, and very much more tolerantly by her sister-in-law. "It is a terrible loss to you," Mrs. Grange says the first time she sees Frank after his bereavement. "Very strong persuasions must have bpen used by Mr. Graham to induce her to waver for a moment in her fidelity to yon. Few people knew her as well as I do, and I am quite sure, when more is known about the matter, we shall find she has not been to blame. Mr. Graham must have used very powerful arguments indeed to win her love." " He probably mentioned his income to her," Frank says. 