There are really two parts to the talethe Scotch courtship, with its intrigues, frustrated elopements, et hoc genus omne; and the scenes, very graphically written, of active service at Varna and Inkerman.

By a most extraordinary coincidence, a New England Captain, with whom this negro had sailed twenty-nine years before, in a sloop from Nantucket, happened at this very time to be confined for debt in the same prison with the alleged slave, and the Captain's testimony, together with that of some other witnesses, who had known the man previous to his pretended elopement, so fully established his freedom, that the Court discharged him.

Moreover, even these adulterous elopements seldom lead to anything more than a temporary liaison, as we have seen, and it would be comic to speak of a "liberty of choice" in cases where such a choice can be exercised only at the risk of being killed on the spot.

Her conduct had given rise to scandal even before her extraordinary elopement with Baron de Lowicz, that needy adventurer with a face like an archangel's and the soul of a swindler.

The facts prove that marriage by actual elopement is of rare occurrence; that "marriage" based on such elopement is nearly always adulterous (with another man's wife) and of brief durationa mere intrigue, in fact; that the guilty couple are severely punished, if not killed outright; and that everything that is possible is done to prevent or frustrate elopements based on individual preference or liking.

It must be remembered, too, that even an actual elopement by no means proves that the woman is following a special inclination.

"Do you think that we're the sort of people, for a romantic elopement?

There was danger that I was going to be seenand, had I been, I felt that I wouldn't have a leg to stand on; alone in such a place with the body of a man whom I admitted having shot "You see, I couldn't even prove the contemplated elopement.

" COURTSHIP PANTOMIME Elopements occur in Samoa in some cases where parental consent is refused.