Amabel Vaughan.

AMABEL VAUGHAN .

BY BEO . EMEA HOLMES , Author of " Tales , Poems , and Masonic Papers ; " "Mildred , an AutumnRomance ; " "My Lord the King ; " " The Path of Life , an Allegory ; " "Another Fenian Outrage ; " "Notes on the United Orders of the Temple and Hospital , " $ -c ., $ c .

CHAPTER VII . MAKK ' S VISIT TO XE 1 VGATJ 5 ST . REET . AFTER a Avcek or two of great enjoyment Fitz returned to London , and in a few days he Avas once more at Wolverston , this time accompanied by his friend Mark Seaton . Mabel had continued to correspond Avith Mark since she left London , indeed

since she had been engaged . Neither she nor Fitz hoAvever had thought fit to tell him of the engagement ; Fitz because he said that Mark had not been very open Avith him lately , and never so much as mentioned Mabel ' s name , so it Avas clear he did not much care ; ancl Mabel because she thought she could better tell him herself than write to him about it . Mabel was like many other Avomenshe liked and admired Markand she even respected him more

, , than she did the man to Avhom she AA'as affianced , ancl yet she AA'as so selfish that she did not serujde to sacrifice . his happiness to her ou'n , and to play Avith his true honest heart as if it Avere but a child ' s toy . So Mark came . Nobody told him of the state of things Avhich existed , since they naturally thought he would knoAV all about it from his bosom friend Fitz , and ho had thus been left in total ignorance of Avhat had taken place . Mark Seaton was not a man to let the grass grow under his feet . He remembered

only too well what Mabel had said to her uncle that last evening at Trinity Parsonage about young Gilbert DaAVSon . " Oh , uncle , I do hope Ave shall get him a presentation . " " You see he ' s a sort of cousin of mine , " she had added to Mark , " and they are so very poor ; " and he had promised that night that he would do his very best for her sake , —and he kept his Avord ;

Mr . Tyssen informed him two or three days aftei'AA'ards that he regretted to say his cousin , Lord Bourchier , had already given his nomination away and would not have another presentation for some years . Then one of the clerks in the office , a good natured felloAV , told him it would not be a bad plan to obtain a list of the governors who would have presentations during that year , Avhich could be got from the counting house at Christ's Hospital for 2 s . 1 d ., so our friend got leave one morning , marched off to NeAvgate Streetinto the Avell-known entrance under King Edward ' s Statueand

, , procured a copy . As he was going out of the gate he was saluted by a small boy , AVIIO said— " Please , sir , Avould you mind buying me a pound of sugar and two packets of cocoa , " putting up his small hand timidly with two fourpenny bits in it . "To be sure I will , my little felloAV , " said Mark , and out he Avent , made the purchase for the boy and came back again .

" And noAV my little man , ancl what ' s your name 1 " said Mark , as he gravely brought the things out of his pockets and gave them to the boy Avith a shilling for himself , which he took gratefully and thanked Mark very much for . " Penalurick ; " replied the boy . " Queer name , " Mark observed , " and Avhere do you come from ?" " Cornwall , a place called St . Blazey : I don't suppose you ever heard of it j" the boy replied . " Well , I ' ve heard of a place that sounds rather like it , " said Mark laughing , " but I