175 So WRIGHT's bold pencil from Vesuvio's hight Hurls his red lavas to the troubled night; From Calpè starts the intolerable flash, Skies burst in flames, and blazing oceans dash; Or bids in sweet repose his shades recede,

i sitt sköt!" "Poor mountain sprite," he continued, "thy power and glory recede!

" I heard her step recede along the hall, and then somewhere a clock struck eight.

That was the terrible thing, that had been the inward pang with which she watched Basil French recede: perjury would have to come in somehow and somewhereoh so quite certainly!before the so strange, so rare young man, truly smitten though she believed him, could be made to rise to the occasion, before her measureless prize could be assured.