great-coat, and trowsers, a waistcoat of coarse white
cloth, a pair of worsted stockings, and the half-boots
of a boy; the whole forming the drum-boy's equipment,
worn by the wretched wife of Halloway when borne senseless
into the hut on that fatal morning. Hastily quitting a
dress that called up so many dreadful recollections, and
turning to his companion with a look that denoted
apprehension, lest he too should have beheld these
melancholy remembrances of the harrowing scene, the young
officer hastened to resume his seat. In the act of so
doing, his eye fell upon the window, at which the female
still lingered. Had a blast from Heaven struck his sight,
the terror of his soul could not have been greater. He
felt his cheek to pale, and his hair to bristle beneath
his cap, while the checked blood crept slowly and coldly,
as if its very function had been paralysed; still he had
presence of mind sufficient not to falter in his step,
or to betray, by any extraordinary movement, that his
eye had rested on any thing hateful to behold.

His companion had emptied his first pipe, and was in the
act of refilling it, when he resumed his seat. He was
evidently impatient at the delay of the Canadian, and
already were his lips opening to give utterance to his
disappointment, when he felt his foot significantly
pressed by that of his friend. An instinctive sense of
something fearful that was to ensue, but still demanding
caution on his part, prevented him from turning hastily
round to know the cause. Satisfied, however, there was
danger, though not of an instantaneous character, he put