was so profound that he could not bear even the very land where Eustace Strangways met his untimely fate, and that very soon after the battle on the ice round Point au Pelée, Blunt sold off any little property he had, and left Canada for ever.

fear he was not Colonel Bradley's

As regards the results of the fight itself, it may be as well to state that the braggadocio General Sutherland was not there at all. He found it convenient to sneak away from his command before a shot could be fired, with his aide-de-camp, but was taken shortly afterwards and tried. What his actual fate was I just now forget, but I hanged, as he richly deserved to be. death you know of, and at much the same time three other leading officers of the rebels fell, while a vast number of the rank and file were either shot, drowned, or died of their wounds. Many also were taken prisoners, tried, and sent to Bermuda; while others were allowed to go free, as not being worthy of the vengeance of the British nation.

Thus ended a brigand attempt to outrage, plunder, and murder, the peaceful settlers of an otherwise peaceful colony; but, as far as we are individually concerned, it was only noteworthy for being the means whereby our gallant Captain Blunt obtained his Baptism of Frost.'

THE TWINS OF GHUZNEE.

"NANOO! Nanoo, what is the delay for? Why

do not the servants get up in time? Here it

is past sunrise and nothing ready!" called a youth of about sixteen years of age, coming out into the broken verandah of a half-ruined little temple, some twenty-five miles from Shikarpore on the Beloochee side of the Indus. The old Hindoo servant was squatting on his haunches by the side of a bullockhackery a little distance away from the temple where they had spent the previous night, rocking himself to and fro in evident grief, and occasionally calling on all the gods in his system of mythology to help him and his protégés out of the serious trouble they had fallen into. It was sunrise, by which time, had all gone right, they should have been far on the road which they were taking to the west; while as it was, there were not even any signs of preparation for the journey, nor had any of the servants been to the temple to call its two occupants. When he heard the lad's voice, Nanoo rose from the ground, folded his arms on his breast in an attitude of suppli

cation, advanced towards the verandah, and with tears in his eyes delivered himself as follows:

"Sahib, sahib! those servants all bad man; they not old servant of the burra sahib, your father, or they never run away!"

"Run away!" echoed Henry Merton, with the utmost amazement, "run away! Do you mean to say they have deserted us?"

"When Nanoo woke this morning, sahib, all were gone-syces, hackery-wallahs, mehtah ——" He was going on with the long list of necessary servants accompanying even that small camp, when a sweet voice broke from a little recessed chamber opposite that which Henry had slept in, asking,—

"Henry, do I hear right? Does Nanoo say our servants have run away?"

"He does, indeed, Amy. For goodness' sake, come out and let us see what it all means."

"Né, né, sahib !" eagerly forbade the old servant, who was of that faithful type long ago extinct in India, who remained for a lifetime 'true to the salt' of their masters. "Né, sahib; the chotee-mem-sahib* not come out! budmashes† all round, and they must not

Literally, 'little Madam Sahib,' but here it simply means miss or missy.

† Scoundrels; used to signify enemies.

see.

Nanoo come in here and talkee with the sahiblogue." So saying, he wiped his eyes, stepped up into the verandah, and thence into the principal hall of the small temple, whose dilapidated walls had afforded welcome shelter for the night. The 'bearer,' for that was the position he held, was followed by Henry-a fine well set-up type of English boyhood, whose light blue eyes, yellow hair, and fair complexion, told of pure Anglo-Saxon blood; and by Amy Merton, whose singular likeness to her twin brother was most extraordinary; in fact, had it not been for the difference in height, the one might readily have been taken for the other. Nor was there very much difference in their characters: thanks to the excellent training they had received in schools in England they were both truthful, honourable, kind, and just; and though Henry's courage was of the more daring nature that manhood demands, Amy's was not at all to be despised for patient endurance, with a power of hoping on to the very last.

"Well, Nanoo, now just tell us as plainly as you can what all this means? We have no desire, now we have come so far on this wild-goose chase after papa, to turn back.”

“And, besides, Nanoo," put in Amy, who did not comprehend, any more than did her brother, the full

extent of their misfortune, and could not account for Nanoo's perturbation-" besides it will surely be easy enough for Henry and you to gallop after them, and make the servants come back, won't it?"

But the old man shook his head, while declaring that considering the early hour the little camp had retired to rest the previous evening, the runaways had had ample time to be the other side of the Indus by now, for they had taken horses, camels -all indeed, except one pair of feeble bullocks to draw the remaining hackery.

"Taken the horses and camels!" cried the twins in a breath: "How on earth are we to get either on or back?”

"Nanoo cannot tell; these fellows great big coward and 'fraid of Beloochees, I think," said the old man looking anxiously at Amy; "plenty of budmashes round, and the chotee-mem-sahib must not be seen."

"Oh, that's nonsense, Nanoo; we must make a start," said the spirited girl; "and I think we should lose no time in setting out to return to Shikarpore."

"But how can you travel, Amy?" asked Henry, who now began to appreciate the difficulty of their position.

“Oh, I can travel as well as you nearly; besides, if I get tired I can have a lift in the bullock-hackery.”