AND HER CAT val

from the mansion, and, in order to avoid Lady Greenford’s
vengeance, he embarked as a cook on board a merchant
vessel sailing for Virginia.

Some time after they heard that this vessel had been
wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland, and that the savages
had eaten Mr. Sharpphiz. The story goes on to say that

 

as he was breathing his last, he uttered but one name, that
of Mowmouth. But what brought that name to his guilty
mind? Was it remoizé? or was it merely the last outburst
of a hatred that nothing could appease? The story has left
this point undetermined.

Lady Greenford’s health had been much impaired by
the severe shocks she had formerly experienced at the loss
of her pet animals. The tenderness and docility of Mow-
mouth might possibly have served to reconcile her to life.
But that respectable lady had reached an age when affliction
is the more bitterly felt. Dame Mitchell was grieved to
find her one morning dead in her bed; yet her face was
so placid, and bore so truly the impress of her many good