oo0 DOGGED JACK.

daring to breathe; he fully felt the hopelessness
and vanity of any uttered words of comfort in such
a case.
 It was the saddest, the most heartrending and
 mournful tale he had ever heard, or could have con-
 ceived, and the warmth of youthful sympathy filled
 his eyes with tears, and his heart with sorrow, for Mr.
 -Lane's anguish.
 But he uttered no word, and they both sat silent
for some time.
 Then Mr. Lane, evidently with a great effort of
self-control, continued-
 It was after this I learned from our family doctor
that my father had been a sufferer from heart-disease
for many years. That he had been warned con-
stantly against over-exertion, excitement, or undue
emotion; but that for my sake, with a loving desire
t., avert the shadow it would have cast over my
young life, he had ever withheld from me the know-
ledge of the fatal disease with which he was afflicted.
Alas! there was no doubt now but that my bad
moods and unjust tempers had increased his malady.
There was no doubt, either, but that the over-exertion
used that day to procure me pleasure aggravated
the disease. In all human probability, too, had I
not behaved with such dogged obstinacy and pride,
my father would have, as he had intended, sent