THE MAN AND THE MONKEY. [Continued.] “ Never mind, Captain,” said I. “ Considering your different amplitudes, he knew very well it would be a, much more serious business if you walked over him, bo of two evils he chose the less, and now let me advise you to keep your own counsel. Nobody in the garrison knows of this little affair at the back of the Rock but our two selves, and I shall not mention it. ”. Somewhat mollified, the Captain awhile remained silent and pensive. At length growing confidential, and speaking low, “ Do you know,” said he, “ just as he had • got his beastly foot on the small of my back, he gave utterance to a strange sort of guttural cry which I did think rather odd as coming from a baboon ; a kind of mixture between a chuckle and the crow ing of acock!” , 'i. •„ So, then, the little Frenchman had felt • such intense exultation at the rich idea of walking over the Captain, that between crowing and chuckling, he had nearly be trayed himself, and stood detected, a man and no monkey. However, though the joke would have exhilarated the whole garrison, I kept my promise, and did not tell; so the Captain was not made a laughing-stock. There was a strict examination, of the quarters which had been occupied by M. De Montmaur, but the search brought noth ing to light which indicated preparations for leaving. He had, doubtless, been aided in his escnpe by some party or parties within the garrison. It transpired that he had been wholly absent from his apartment during the four-and-twenty hours which immediately preceded hiß flight; and for not reporting this the pro prietor, 'a civilian, had to pay a small pecuniary fine—a far lighter punishment than he deserved. Whether the baboon carried any im portant information respecting the state of affairs within the fortress to our enemies without, we never learned. If he did, it mattered little. A few days after came the grand attack. We burned their float ing batteries, and shortly after the siege was raised. .. Passing along the seawall the second day after the attack, I'noticed a brother officer with his elbows on the parapet, blowing a cloud. I was soon by his side, doing as he did. Our faces were toward the water. 