A few confidential words to the sergeant explained the situation, and while some of the men went up to the cell to investigate and others sob to work with boat hooks to find Marners body, Erie and the sorgean6 droseod Clifl'a wounds, and restored his strength with brandy from a flask. Then Eric and Cliff were left together while the chief boarded the boab and stimulated the search in every direction. The raon re turned from the, cell and handed the notes

thoy had found on the ground to Eric (they represented but a poor moiety to tho greab fortune which had been thoro)—then went on to examine tho camping ground. After a good half-hour's patient toil, the aorgeanb called oubto tho boya. ' it's no use ; there's a current at the bottom that would suck a house away. When ho sank—and those bags of gold in his Bide pockets helped him bo sink deep, and to stay sunk—tho current sucked him out of the cavern into the wido lake. Some day after a Btorin ho may drift ashore; all wo can do now ia to koop a good lookout.'

Tho boys sab in eilenco, heavily grioved. ' How shall wo go back to your father with euch news V aaid Cliff with a stiflod sob, torn from his bittor troublo. Bub for his cunning co-oporation Tony and his band could nover have seized Mr Stan raore's millions; and ho had unconsciously built his hope of atonomont) upon his suc cess in restoring thorn to him. Ho had Failed ; ho muab go into his new lifo laden with the guilb of having injurod a man to whom he could malco no reparation. And CHIT was one of those thorough ponitonts who believe that ponitenco without repara tion is apt to bo a hollow profession. Unable to look on at his griof, Eric rose to moot tho boat "which was now heading towards thorn ; when ho fold a sudden tug of bin hand, and looked down abCHIT. Next : moment ho dropped on liia kneos beside him, planted' his hands ou his shouldore, and slightly shook him. 