But I am afraid none of us will slcop much to-night, is is a heavy trial to give up Douglass. Ho is my younger, better self.' Jio walked slowly away, and sho thought he looked more aged and infirm than she had ever seen him, his usually orect head drooping, as if bowed in deep sorrow. For an hour after his departure his foot stops resounded in the room overhead, as ho paced to and fro, but when tho distant indistinct echo of the town clock told two all grow quiet upstairs. In the dining-room tho shaded lamp burned dimly, and Jtegina could sco tho outline of Hannah's form on the sofa, and know from tho continual turning first on one sido, then on the other, that the old woman was awake, though no sound oscaped her. by a profound yob nilont grief that rendered sleep impossible, Regina lay with her hands 'folded ovor tho small packet, wondering what it contained, re gsetting that the conditions of tho gift prohibited her opening it for so many long years, and striving to divest herself of a haunting foreboding that sho had looked for tho last time on the bright benignant countenance of tho doctor, who was in chssolubly linked with the happiest memo ries of her lonoly iifo. Imagination magnified tho perils of tho tedious voyage that included two ocean;-, and as if to intensify r>.nd blacken tho horrors of tho future, all tho fiendish tragedies of Delhi, Meorub and Cawnporo wero vividly revived among the mission' iries to whom Mr Lindsay was hastening. Deeply interested in the condition of 'x people whoso welfaro was so dear to his heart, sho had e:igor!y road all the mission reports, and thus imbibed a keen aversion to the Sepoys, who had become synony mous with' trouchcry and ingenious atrocity. 