shonld never marry but; remain always at her post, assisted by her younger brother a half-witted lad of some sixteen years, when a former suitor of hers — no other than Jacopo Pales'tro, the Palermo scrivener — made his -appearance from Sicily, with the funds Jasper Lowder had given him and renewed his offer to her of marriage. As he displayed his money, Giuditta considered his proposal. She coquetted with his hopes and fears for a day or two, and then insisted upon knowing the source of his income, that she might judge of the probability of its continnanee. With her woman's wiles she soon drew from Palestro the whole secret. Having a scheming brain, and accepting his theory that Lowder and Tressilian were really brothers, of whom one stood in the way of the other, she did not under-estimate the importance of the secret. Considering it a mine of riches, if well worked, and desiring a partner in her cares and anxieties, she decided that she could not do better than to marry the scrivener ; and accordingly, as we know, she had married him. Upon the afternoon on which Miss Rymple, her attendants and Guy Tres silian landed at Naples, and at about the same moment that the little party bade adieu, to Captain Ricardo of the folucca, and set out in a voiture for the Vesuvius i Inn, Jacopo Palestro stood in his open door-way, under his creaking sign, and glanced about him with an air ot the most intense satisfaction. He had arrived at the height of his ambition, and waß already the type of a suave, bland, insin uating hotel-keeper. His personal appearance had greaily, improved since leaving Sioily. His power ful, undersized figure was attired in the glossiest black garments. His swarthy countenance wore an habitual smirk, but it is doubtful if this could be termed an im provement. His crisp black air was dressed with some fragrant oil, and he wore in his ears a pair of small gold hoops. He stepped ont in the shade of the mul berry-tree, for the sun's ray's were warm, and sat down at one of the tables, drum ming upon it listlessly with his fingers. He was thus engaged when his bride, making her appearance from an inner room, came out and took the place he had just vacated in the door-way. 