sum of money, the ring
mentioned, and a letter from the notorious Lovett, in which that
person in begging to return his lordship the sums of which he had
twice assisted to rob him, thanked him, with earnest warmth, for the
consideration testified towards him in not revealing his identity with
Captain Clifford; and ventured, as a slight testimony of respect, to
inclose the aforesaid ring with the sum returned.

About the time Mauleverer received this curious packet, several
anecdotes of a similar nature appeared in the public journals; and
it seemed that Lovett had acted upon a general principle of
restitution,--not always, it must be allowed, the offspring of a
robber's repentance. While the idle were marvelling at these anecdotes,
came the tardy news that Lovett, after a single month's sojourn at his
place of condemnation, had, in the most daring and singular manner,
effected his escape. Whether, in his progress up the country, he had
been starved or slain by the natives, or whether, more fortunate, he had
ultimately found the means of crossing seas, was as yet unknown. There
ended the adventures of the gallant robber; and thus, by a strange
coincidence, the same mystery which wrapped the fate of Lucy involved
also that of her lover. And here, kind reader, might we drop the curtain
on our closing scene, did we not think it might please thee to hold it
up yet one moment, and give thee another view of the world behind.

In a certain town of that Great Country where shoes are imperfectly
polished--[See Captain Hall's late work on America]--and opinions are
not prosecuted, there resided, twenty years after the date of Lucy
Brandon's departure from England, a man held in high and universal
respect, not only for the rectitude of his conduct, but for the energies
of his mind, and the purposes to which they were directed. If you asked
who cultivated that waste, the answer was, "Clifford!" who procured the
establishment of that hospital, "Clifford!" who obtained the redress of
such a public grievance, "Clifford!" who struggled for and won such a
popular benefit, "Clifford!" In the gentler part of his projects and his
undertakings--in that part, above all, which concerned the sick or the
necessitous--this useful citizen was seconded, or rather excelled, by a
being over whose surpassing loveliness Time seemed to have flown with a
gentle and charming wing. There was something remarkable and touching
in the love which this couple