rom under me; I am already at the city gate; oh, yet, Lord, yet there
is time; oh, have mercy on this slumbering city, that it may not even
now awaken with the lamentations of terror, of despair and death! O
Lord, I touch the threshold of the gate; verily Thou willest it so
then. 'Tis done--Paris! the scourge is in thy bosom! oh, cursed, cursed
evermore am I. Onward! on! on!"(34)

(34) In 1346, the celebrated Black Death ravaged the earth, presenting
the same symptoms as the cholera, and the same inexplicable phenomena as
to its progress and the results in its route. In 1660 a similar epidemic
decimated the world. It is well known that when the cholera first broke
out in Paris, it had taken a wide and unaccountable leap; and, also
memorable, a north-east wind prevailed during its utmost fierceness.

CHAPTER II. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE WANDERING JEW.

That lonely wayfarer whom we have heard so plaintively urging to be
relieved of his gigantic burden of misery, spoke of "his sister's
descendants" being of all ranks, from the working man to the king's son.
They were seven in number, who had, in the year 1832, been led to Paris,
directly or indirectly, by a bronze medal which distinguished them from
others, bearing these words:-VICTIM of L. C. D. J. Pray for me!

-----PARIS, February the 13th, 1682.

IN PARIS, Rue St. Francois, No. 3, In a century and a half you will be.
February the 13th, 1832.

-----PRAY FOR ME!

The son of the King of Mundi had lost his father and his domains in
India by the irresistible march of the English, and was but in title
Prince Djalma. Spite of attempts to make his departure from the East
delayed until after the period when he could have obeyed his
medal's command, he had reached France by the second month of 1832.
Nevertheless, the results of shipwreck had detained him from Paris till
after that date. A second possessor of this token had remained unaware
of its existence, only discovered by accident. But an enemy who sought
to thwart the union of these seven members, had shut her up in a
mad-house, from which she was released only after that day. Not alone
was she in imprisonment. An old Bonapartist, General Simon, Marshal of
France, and Duke de Ligny, had left a wife in Russian exile, while he
(unable to follow Napoleon to St. Helena) continued to fight the English
in India by means of Prince Djalma's Sepoys, whom he drilled. On the
latter's defeat, he had meant to accompany his y