hear my darling say so? Would her mother have so left me if I had entreated her to go with me for my good? You will not be a blessing and a comfort to your father? You will not? Well, I go back without having accomplished my errand. When you hear of my death, Jenny, perhaps an evil death—and when you hear of the crimes I shall have committed, after having been refused by my daughter my supplication to her, you will think of this. But I dare not stay longer. That young Clinton was on board the vessel of Captain Barry, and he is dangerous to me. I havé hazarded my life in staying here so long-and why have I hazarded it? that I might gain my child back to my heart; but she tells me I am a Pirateshe will not dwell with me."

"No-no-no; I did not say that; you mistook my meaning, dear father. I said that I was afraid to go again in a pirate-ship. I suffered so dreadfully formerly."

me.

"It is all the same meaning. You will not go with But my heart so clings to hope, I will ask you once more. Will you, Jenny Anderson, forsake me now for

ever?""

Jane wept most agonisingly, and her answer was unintelligible.

“I have done,” said the Pirate, pushing her from him; "I go, and whatever becomes of me henceforward I care not."

He was turning to depart, and adjusting his fur cap on his head, when Arthur appeared close to the door. Jane started, and the Pirate frowned, clutching the handle of a knife which had been concealed in the sash of his waist, and drawing it half cut to view.

Unintentionally, I have heard your words to your daughter," said Arthur, nothing daunted by the look of the mariner;" and, though against my will, have received in them confirmation of a statement which has this morning been made by that young Clinton you have named; he asserts that you are the murderer of Captam Barry, and the robber of the contents of his ship. Yield yourself, therefore, a prisoner to the laws you have violated."

"No-do not detain him, Mr. Lee!" entreated Jane, using all her influence with Arthur for her father's sake. "He never was he never could have been guilty of murder! Do not believe Clinton. He falsely accused the Settler's son; he is, therefore, capable of falsely accusing another. I have told you the worst of my father; he has been a Pirate-but not a murderer !"

"And so you have betrayed me Jane!" exclaimed the Pirate.

"Let him not think so, Mr. Lee," said Jane; "remember that you sought my confidence, and that you bade me rely on your secresy and friendship."

"I have not forgotten it, my dear Jane," said Arthur," and nothing that you have said to me shall hurt him in the least. I arrest him as a murderer, not as a Pirate."

"Mr. Lee, my father is no murderer!" said Jane, with more spirit than she had ever shown before. Her youthful figure was again encircled by her father's arm, and a warm energy was added to the usually quiet expression of her face

Tere is such a thing among virtuous people, as the pride of virtue, which some imagine (we think errone

ously) to be necessary to its existence. Such pride marred the uprightness of Arthur. He extended his abhorrence of guilt to the individual; the guilty were, to use an Hebrew expression, as smoke in his nostrils. The Pirate, therefore, found little favour at his hands, although the parent of his betrothed. To favour the escape of such a man from the just vengeance of the law, Arthur would have thought nothing less than a crime-a crime which he was too proud, as well as too conscientious to commit.

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My dear Jane," said he, "whether he is a murderer or not, remains to be proved. It is certain he is charged with the crime, and I cannot allow him to go from hence until he has been examined by my grandfather."

"You will find it difficult to prevent me from going, young gentleman," said the Pirate.

"If my father remains," said Jane," he will be condemned as a Pirate, even though he be acquitted as a murderer."

"Clinton's accusation says nothing of piracy," said Arthur," and of course, I shall disclose nothing which Jane has entrusted to me in confidence;" at the same time, he reddened, for he remembered he had that morning inadvertently informed Clinton of nearly all he himself knew.

"Mr. Lee, you cannot suppose that he will not be known. Have not all the magistrates of Upper Canada been furnished with minute descriptions of his person, and been commissioned to take him prisoner, as the notorious Pirate of the Lakes? Would not Pastor Wilson discover who he was?"

"Good bye Jenny, my child, good bye," said the Pirate; it may be a very long time before you see me again; and then you may regret that you chose the society of a lover, in preference to that of a father."

He was turning away, leaving Jane much embarrassed and distressed, when Arthur, who had stepped aside a moment, returned to the door with a loaded pistol, which he deliberately aimed at the Pirate, who was off his guard. Jane screamed at the sight, and sprang on her father's neck, stretching out her hand as though to repel the ball.

"You alarm yourself needlessly, my dear Jane," said Arthur. "I only mean to show this man, whom you call your father, that he must remain, and abide the result of an examination."

"And that result," said Jane, "will be-his death." "I should be sorry for your sake, Jane," said Arthur, "if it were so."

"Put aside your pistol, sir," said the Pirate; "I render myself up."

"First hand me the knife, and what other arms you carry," said Arthur.

The Pirate delivered them without any appearance of perturbation, and then followed Arthur without a word, into a room, which was locked upon him.

Jane remained as if stupified, leaning against one side of the doorway, until Arthur came to her, and endeavoured to justify himself in the conduct he had pursued toward her father.

"Mr. Lee," said she, "I had deceived myself with the belief that my peace was dearer to you than I find it

to be. I will not, however, so deceive myself again. Our engagement is broken."

Jane," began Arthur, but she interrupted him by a firmness equal to his own.

"Do not do not distress me more, Mr. Lee. I am not to be shaken from my determination;" and when she had thus spoken, she retired to a room adjoining that one in which her father was; here, sinking on her knees beside a chair, she leaned down her head on the seat, covered with her apron, and abandoned herself for a short time to her affliction.

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"I have no one to advise with now-no one to cheer

me," said she. "If Lucy, my dear friend, were alive, things would not be as they are. Full soon I feel her loss a loss indeed for me! All my fair prospect of happiness here is overcast with darkness. But all the disappointments in the world, should be as nothing to me, if my FATHER were only in safety. Well I know he can hope for no mitigation of his doom, he will diehe will die." Here she wrung her hands passionately,

and sobbed aloud.

"What's the matter thin, Miss Jane, darlin?" asked Deborah, who had entered the room half dressed, carrying her gown on her arm. "Sure and I'd like to know what it is ye're braking your heart for at this rate." "Oh, Deborah, nothing-nothing at all-in particular," said Jane, rising, looking out at the window, and making an effort to speak unconcernedly; " the sky is very cloudy this morning, I should not wonder if we have many successive days of rain."

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Mighty fine, Miss Jane, you may throw your throuble aside with great pains when I am prisint; but it wont