or Charles?" alluding to two distinguished commanders in the American army.

"Neither. Mine is a name unknown to fame,

Eliot."

"Eliot Lee!-Herbert's friend! — Bessie's brother! Papa, you do not understand. Mr. Lee is the brother of your little pet, Bessie Lee, and," she added, "Herbert's best friend."

Her father coloured; and civilly hoped Miss Bessie Lee was well.

"Well! that is nothing," exclaimed Miss Linwood. "We hope all the world is well; but I must know where Bessie is-what she is doing-how she is looking, and a thousand million et ceteras. Papa, Mr. Lee must come home with us." ""

Certainly, Isabella, if Mr. Lee chooses.

Thus bidden, Mr. Lee could only chuse to refuse, which he did; alleging that he had no time at his own disposal.

Isabella looked pained, and Mr. Linwood felt uncomfortable; and making an effort at an amende honorable, he said, "Pray send your servant to me, sir; I shall be happy to express my obligations to him.”

"Heaven smiles on Herbert!" thought Eliot; and he replied eagerly, "I will most certainly send him, sir, this evening, at eight o'clock.” He then bowed to Mr. Linwood, took Isabella's hand, which she again graciously extended to him, and thanking her for her last kind words— "Best-best love to Bessie; be sure you don't forget it," he mounted his horse and was off.

"Send him!" said Mr. Linwood, reiterating Eliot's last words. "I'll warrant him!-trust a Yankee for not letting slip a shilling."

"He is quite right, papa. If he cannot obtain the courtesy due to the gentleman in return for the service he has rendered, he is right to secure the reward of the menial. You were savage

sir-absolutely savage. Mr. Lee will think we are barbarians-heathens-anything but Christians.".

"And so am I, and so will I be to these fellows. This young man did only what any other young man would have done upon instinct; so don't pester me any more about him. You know, Belle, I have sworn no rebel shall enter my doors."

"And you know, sir, that I have-not sworn-oh, no! but resolved, and my resolve is the feminine of my father's oath, that you shall hang me on a gallows high as Haman's, before I cease to plead that our doors may be opened to one rebel at least.”

"Never, never!" replied her father, shutting his hall-door after him as he spoke, as if all the rebel world were on the other side of it.

CHAPTER XII.

Oui, je suis sûr que vous m'aimez, mais je ne le suis pas que vous m'aimiez toujours.-MOLIERE.

WHEN Eliot rejoined his friend at the appointed rendezvous, Mrs. Billings's, Herbert listened most eagerly to every particular of Eliot's meeting with his father and sister, and . thanked him over and over again for so thoughtfully smoothing the way for his interview with them in the evening. "Oh, Eliot," he said,

may you never have such a hurricane in your

bosom as I had when I stood by my father and

Belle, and longed to throw myself at his feet, and take my sister into my arms. I believe I did kiss Jennet-what the deuce ailed the jade? she is the gentlest creature that ever stepped. Never doubt my self-controul after this, Eliot!" Eliot's apprehensions were not so easily removed. He perceived that Herbert was in a frame of mind unsuited to the cautious

part he was to act. His feelings had been excited by his rencounter with his father and sister, and though he had passed through that trial with surprising self-possession, it had quite unfitted him for encountering the "botheration" (so he called it) that awaited him at Mrs. Billings's.

"We are in a beautiful predicament here," he said; "our landlady, who is one of your

'

''cute Yankees,' will not let us in till she has

sent our names and a description of our persons

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