Lord Seely left Whitford without seeing him again, and sent back unopened- a note, which Algernon had written, beg ging for an interview, with these words written outside the cover in a trembling hand : " Dare not to write to me, or im portune mo more." ; Algernon received this late at night and before noon the next day the fact was known all over Whitford. People began to say that Lord Seely had obtained access to David Powell, had spoken with him, and had gone away convinced of tho substantial truth of the testimony ; that his lordship had left orders that Powell should lack no comfort or attention which hia unhappy state permitted of his enjoy ing ; and that he had strongly expressed his grateful sense of the poor preacher's efforts to save his niece. From London, Lord Seely — who had heard that Miss Bodkin had visited Duck well Farm while his niece lay dead there, and had placed flbwers on her vinconscioua breast — sent a mourning-ring and a letter, the contents of which Minnie communi cated to no one but her parents. Never theless, its contents were discussed pretty widely, and were said to be of a nature very damnatory to Algernon Errington'p character. However, tho painful things that wcro said in Whitford could not hurt him, for hc^had. cone — disappeared in the nigln, like a thief, as hi 3 creditors said — and no one could say whither. CuAl'TElt LXI. Conclusion. Our talo is almost told. The last words that need saying can bo briolly said. When some weeks had passed away, Mrs Errington received a letter from her son,

demanding a remittance to be sent forth with Poste Restanto to a little seaport town on the Italian Riviera. He had not during the interval left his mother in absolute ignorance as to what had become of him, but had sent her a few brief "lines from London, paying that he had been obliged to leave Whitford in order to escape being put in prison for debt ; that his present intention was to go abroad ; and that she should hear again from him before long. 