The truth, no matter how unflattering, is always far more agreeable to me than equivocation, or disingenuous noss. Does my ward bolieve that it will conduce to her future happiness to leave my roof, and find a residence elsewhere?' 'I know I should bo happior with my mother.' j 'Then I congratulate myself as the I boarer of delightful tidings. R&gina, it • gives me pleas, re to relieve you from your | present disairrccable surroundings, by mi i forming you of fcho telegram received to- I day by cable' from your mother. It was i dated two days ago ab Naples, and is as ; follows :—" Send Regina to mo by the ' ! first steamer bo Havre. I will meet her in I Paris." ' ! Involuntarily the girl exclaimed : ! 'Thank God!' ; The joyful expression of her countenance • rendorcd ib impossible to doubt thegonuine i ness of her satisfaction at bhe intelligence ; i and though Mr Palma kept close guard over his own features lest they should betray his ; emotion, an increased paleness attested the ;; depth of his feelings. 1 ' How soon can I go ? : 'In two days a steamer sails for Havre, i and I have already engaged a passage for j you. Doubtless you are awaro thab Mrs Palma and Olga hold themselves in readi ! ness to start afc any hour, and your friend ; and admirer Mr Chesley will go over in the same steamer ; consequently wibh so chival i rous an escort yon cannot fail to have v j pleasant voyage. Since you aro so anxious Ibo escape from my guardianship, I may be : pardoned for emulating your frankness, i and acknowledging that I am heartily-glad i you will soon cease to be my ward. Mr I Chesley is ambitious of succeeding .to my ! authority, and I have relinquished my claim i'as guardian, and referred him to your j mother, to whoso hands I joyfully resien you. A residence in Europe will, I hope, soon obliterate fcho unpleasant associations connected with my house.' 'A lifetime would never obliterate the memory of all your kindness to me, or ot some hours I havo passed in this beautiful library. 