I became interested in him ; and my inte rest was repaid, not only by tho dis covery that my first impression was o:or rcct, but that hiH was a most unique character. In due timo we became quite intimate, and the intimacy, while in creasing my interest, at tho same timo filled me with a sincere regard for the young 1 fellow. Commercially, I found him to bo in a moderately prosperous business ; morally, I found him to ba a modern Joseph—staunch in hiß virtue, though beset on all bauds by temptation, before which a less sturdy charactor must have fallen prone. He was a puzzle to me, which at times I gavo up all hope of solving. Now gay, frivolous, light-hearted, ho would sud denly becomo sober, solemn, and morose, and the motamorphoais was nearly always without apparent reason. All efforts to draw from him the causo wore gently but firmly repulsed. On other occasions, he would leave me suddenly, and dart off al most without a word, to be gono some times two or three days. I remember an instance last summer, while we were spending a fortnight at Long Branch. YVe were seated together on the piazza of the West End. This morning was hot and stifling. Tho wind had been from off shore for several days, aDd the sun had shriveled the flowers in beds on the hotel lawns, and so baked the drives as to keop the watering carts incessantly busy laying tho dust. Sud denly Culberston looked up from his paper. "Egad!" he exclaimed, "it is the 10th of August, isn't it? I had almost for gotten." Then he disappeared into the house, and half an hour after I saw him jump into the coach that was about starting for the train bound New Yorkward. Two days after I picked up a copy of the World, and read in the news from Bar Harbour: "Mr John Lowrence Culbertson, of Philadelphia, is stopping at Roddick's." On August 14th he was back at tho Branch. " How did you enjoy your Bar Harbor excursion ?" I asked. He looked hurt by the question, but did not seem surprised. " It was on business, not pleasure, that I went!" ke answered, curtly, and he was gloomy for two days afterward. 