Amabel Vaughan.*

" And your cousins , " said the gentleman , " are they here ?" "Yes , " Dawson ansAvered ; "that lady in mourning , with her back to us , isiny cousin . " The gentleman , with a feAV SAvift steps , Avas at her side , and , looking apparently at the Madonna , Avas in reality intently examining the lineaments of a woman still so beautiful though so sad looking that at the Grand Hotel Avhere she was staying she Avas knoAvn as La Belle Anglaise . Mabel was stills tanding with hands clasped in front of her ,

looking dreamily and A'acantly at the picture , Avhen looking up suddenly she was startled with the appearance of the tall military-looking stranger , Avhoin she had caught a glimpse of before as she entered the Palace , and Avho had brought about a train " of thought we found her in just now , and after gazing earnestly upon him for a moment , she Avas about to pass on , when he turned round full upon her , looked and looked again , and then at last came up to her exclaiming , " Mabel is it you ?" Mabel just uttered that one word "Mark ! " and the shock overcame her , and she fainted aAvay .

Marcus Seaton and Mabel Yaughan are' now man and wife . It appeared that when Mark left Wolverston , which he did immediately after Avishing Mabel good-bye , he started off immediately for London . In a feAV da 3 s he Avas out of England , and a short time afterwards , through the influence of his friends , he got his resignation altered to . an exchange from Somerset House into the military store department , was sent out to Hong Kong as military storekeeper , and Avas just returning home by AA'ay of Paris Avhen the friends met .

He had Avritten once to Mr . Seymour , thanking him for his kindness , but the letter had miscarried , and not receiving a reply , he had never Avritten again . On his return to England Mark Avas promoted to be lieutenant in the Eoyal Artillery , and is UOAV major . It Avas never found out who was the droAvned man , but it was supposed it had been some fisherman ; and the pocket-book Mark lumself had dropped in taking out his handkerchief as he Avalked on the pier . As it contained nothing of importance , he had made no inquiry about it .

Mabel told Mark ' afterwards , however , that it Avas that melancholy event and those sad A'erses which first showed her Avhat Avere her real feelings towards him . Fitz is still a bachelor , gay and volatile as ever , and he and Mark are friends again . Dawson used to come and see him on leave-days sometimes , and was always made welcome in his chambers , and tipped liberally . He is the author of two or three works of fiction , and is now dramatic critic on the Evening Postand he " Avears his heart upon his sleeA'e

, , but not for daAvs to peck at . " Young DtiAVSon is now curate-in-charge at Brakesbourne , having entered the Church after leaving Oxford . He rose to be a Grecian at Christ ' s Hospital , and was sent to college at the expense of that noble institution for the sons of decayed gentlemen . FINIS .

In Memoriam.

IN MEMORIAM .

TTOW often in life , clay by . day , do Ave have to mourn the loss of relatives , friends , - brethren- —a loss which Ave never forget—a loss for which we are never recouped here . For life , after all , to us' all , is in one sense an individualism , in that our feelings , like our associates , are individual , personal to us : that is , alike in the attractions they present , and the interest they evoke . Any life AA'hich is spent apart from the gentler emotions of humanitarian fellowship , ' A'hich is dead , as it Avere , to the voice of friends or the living reality of companionship ,