"for we shall reconduct him to his former cell as coon as the business of the night is concluded."

This done, the governor and Hubert immediately proceeded to the chapel where lay the young Frenchman of whom the governor had spoken in the morning, prepared for interment on the following day : taking him up in their arms, they bore him to Edward's vacated cell, and binding the chain round his waist, they placed him on the pallet, and threw a coverlet over him. The governor then commanded Hubert to retire to his own room, saying, that when the emissaries from England had, as they supposed, performed the deed of death for which they had been sent into Flanders, and he had conducted them beyond the outer wall of the prison, he would summon Hubert to assist him in replacing the dead body of the young Frenchman in its proper situation in the chapel, and in reconducting Edward to his cell.

Hubert obeyed Xavia's command of retiring to his chamber, while Garcias himself proceeded to the apartment where he had left Alwin and his companion. He who had made the third on the preceding evening had set out that morning for England, with the letter written by the governor to the lord William de Mowbray, to inform him of the death of his hated son-in-law,

"Come forth boldly," said the governor, addressing them; "you will meet with no interruption in your proceedings." They left the apartment, and followed his steps.

Arrived at the cell where Edward had lately been a prisoner, the governor said "You need not fear his waking; he has swallowed a potion that will ensure your security." The governor continued to stand at the door of the cell, extending his hand which bore the lamp into it, and pointing with the other to the pallet where lay the dead body. Alwin's companion continued also at the door, standing by the side of the governor. Alwin himself moved up to the pallet; having fixed his eyes for an instant upon the body, of which the single lamp carried by the governor was too faint a light for him to discover the features, he drew a dagger from the folds of his mantle, and having run it twice into the body of the supposed Edward, he exclaimed"Farewell! thou wilt never tell tales of him who sent thee to thy account!" He let the dagger fall from his hand as he spoke these words, and leaving the cell, he addressed Garcias Xavia, desiring that he would immediately conduct him and his companion out of the prison.

The moment their receding steps were no longer audible to Hubert, he darted into the gallery, and entering the apartment where Edward was, he exclaimed—“ My master! my benefactor! Your liberty, your life depend on the present moment! Follow me, follow me!"

The heart of Edward beat a tumult of joy on these welcome sounds from the lips of the honest Hubert, and he was satisfied to act under his direc

tion, without that explanation for which the urgency of the moment afforded no opportunity.

Hubert led the way back to his own chamber, and the instant they were both within it, he said"In a very short time the governor will come hither alone, to summon me to his aid, in a point which shall hereafter be explained to you; the moment he appears, assist me to secure him, and we triumph over our enemies."

A few minutes of awful and torturing suspense succeeded. The soul of Edward almost sickened between the extremes of expectation and the dread of disappointment; the feelings of Hubert were wound to a pitch of the most nervous hope and exultation.

The door of Hubert's chamber was at length pushed open by the hand of the governor-" Now then!" exclaimed Hubert. Edward understood the meaning of his exclamation, and both darting at the same instant upon the astonished Garcias, made him their prisoner." This way with him !” said Hubert, and they had led him to the door of the cell where Edward had so lately been a captive ere he was sufficiently recovered from the surprise in which the unexpected treatment he was receiving had thrown him, to be able to command the power of utterance.

When he did speak, it was only in broken sentences that his astonishment and passion could gain a passage through his lips." What means this?"