another, and he was invited to the house of Dunning, and soon found
himself, he hardly knew how, on a familiar footing in his family, and
giving lessons in painting to his daughter. Edmund Dunning had no
intentions that any other lessons should be given, and it accordingly
grieved him when he discovered the terms on which the young people
stood to one another, and which their ingenuousness could not conceal.
With this relation he had made himself acquainted as soon as he
suspected it, by inquiring of Eveline, who frankly told him the whole
truth. Arundel loved her, but dared not, on account of the distance
that separated him from her father, make known his feelings. The
father demanded of his child why she did not, at the beginning, check
such aspiring thoughts, and whether it was proper to allow of the
continuance of such a state of things. Poor Eveline could only reply
with tears, and that she could not prevent Miles loving her, but
confessed that she had done wrong, and promised to break off the
intimacy.

"I am unacquainted with his family, which is probably obscure," said
Edmund Dunning; "but were the blood of Alfred in his veins, he should
have no daughter of mine so long as he favors the persecuting Church
of England, which I know he does, notwithstanding his constant
attendance at the meetings of the congregation, the reason whereof I
now understand."

The promise which Eveline made to her father she kept, nor from that
moment would she consent to see Arundel. He pleaded hard for a single
interview, if only to take leave, and though her heart strongly took
his part, she replied that she would not increase the reproaches of
her conscience by advancing a step further in an intimacy which she
had wrongly concealed from her father, and was disapproved by him. All
intercourse between the lovers ceased from this time, and shortly
after Arundel disappeared from the neighborhood.

But it was at the risk of her health that Eveline obeyed her parent.
The rounded form began to become thin; the cheeks, in which red roses
were accustomed to bloom, faded, and the lovely blue eyes lost their
lustre. The anxious father noticed these signs with apprehension, and
in the hope that new scenes and a change of climate might improve his
daughter's health, hastened their departure.

Almost immediately on his arrival in the new world he formed an
acquaintance with Spikeman, who used every effort to ingratiate
himself into his confi