nd. He knocked, and was immediately admitted. He
found Mr S--- pacing the room up and down in great anxiety, the
breakfast remaining on the table untouched. He warmly greeted the
arrival of our hero. Joey, as soon as he had informed him of what he
had done, and in whose hands he had placed the young lady, stated the
circumstance of the father and brother being outside on the watch, and
that he thought that they had recognised him.

"That is nothing more than what I expected," replied Mr S---; "but I
trust easily to evade them; they are not aware that the back of this
house communicates with the stables belonging to it in the mews, and we
can go out by that way without their perceiving us. I've so many thanks
to offer you, sir, for your kind interference in our behalf, that I
hardly know how to express them. To one thing you are most certainly
entitled, and I should prove but little my sincerity if I did not
immediately give it you; that is my confidence, and a knowledge of the
parties whom you have assisted, and the circumstances attending this
strange affair. The young lady, sir, is, as you know, a Jewess by
birth, and the daughter of a rabbi, a man of great wealth and high
ancestry, for certainly Jews can claim the latter higher than any other
nation upon earth. I am myself a man of fortune, as it is usually
termed,--at all events, with sufficient to indulge any woman I should
take as my wife with every luxury that can be reasonably demanded. I
mention this to corroborate my assertion, that it was not her father's
wealth which has been my inducement. I made the acquaintance of the
father and daughter when I was travelling on the Continent; he was on
his way to England, when his carriage broke down, in a difficult pass on
the mountains, and they would have been left on the road for the night,
if I had not fortunately come up in time, and, being alone, was able to
convey them to the next town. I have always had a great respect for the
Jewish nation. I consider that every true Christian should have; but I
will not enter upon that point now. It was probably my showing such a
feeling, and my being well versed in their history, which was the
occasion of an intercourse of two days ripening into a regard for one
another; and we parted with sincere wishes that we might meet again in
this country. At the time I speak of, which was about three years ago,
his daughter Miriam was, comparatively speaking, a child, and