Thirty ' atheists,' that is to snv, xJro tostsmts and Jews, he learned were to be sacrificed to God, as soon as High Mass was ended. Some of the victims, said to be ' penitent,' were, in the first instance, to be strangled j the rest were to be burnt alive ! Though still incredulous of this hor ror, from its apparent impossibility, Alvarez entreated his new-found friend's assistance in guiding him to the scene of the reported tragedy. With the rash candour of a bursting heart, lie told him his motive — his whole story. The citizpn listened with respect and deep compassion. 'On my head be it,' he exclaimed; 'thy servants name is Harnet, a poor silver smith. I know thy noble hou.-=e, most honoured by our people. Thy wishes are my law. I know the way whither then wouldst go but too well. The blood of my kindred has cried to heaven from its accursed stones ere how. As the idea that his mother might be among the victims about to suffer became familiar to his mind, Alvarez felt a transition from his soul-sickening suspense to one of gloomy pleasure He prepared himself to perish with her, and, in sharing her death-pangs, to avoid the worse agony of surviving her. Sustained by this resolution, he once more plunged into the crowd, now ac companied by Hamet. As they approached the Plaza de la Lonja, where the scaffold was erected, they found the mob so dense that they could scarcely penetrate it. By dint of desperate struggling, however, the men of business forced their way through the men of pleasure, and at length they stood beside the fearful theatre. The temporary stage con sisted of a platform, a hundred feet square, raised about four feet from the ground. At one end a space was railed off for the Inquisitors, and there, too, was a pulpit for the preacher of the funeral sermon to ye c living men. 