ound down a distant hill, to see if the carriage were coming,
although she knew two hours must elapse before her father could
possibly arrive.

At last the long and anxiously looked-for object came in sight, winding
along the road far in the distance. Soon it passed from view, and she
waited breathlessly, until it should appear at a nearer point. Again it
met her eyes, and again disappeared. At last it reached the long avenue
of poplars that lined the carriage-way leading up to the house; the
horses were coming at a rapid speed. Edith could not breathe in the
rooms--the atmosphere was oppressive. She went into the porch, and,
leaning against or rather clinging to one of the pillars, stood almost
gasping for breath. The suspense she suffered was awful; but certainty
soon came. The carriage whirled rapidly into its position before the
door, and Mr. Tomlinson sprang from it as agile as a boy. He had merely
time to say--

"All is safe!" when Edith sank into his arms, unable longer to stand.

"And here is our noble champion," he added, as another stood by his
side.

Edith opened her eyes, that she had closed in the excess of joy; the
face of her lover was near her. She looked up at him for a moment, and
then closed them again; but now the tears came stealing through her
shut lids.

The young lawyer had gained two suits in one. Three months afterwards
Edith was his bride, and the dowry was the five hundred acres of land
from the estate of Allison, awarded to her father by the Supreme Court.

THE END.

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