lantern, he drew forth the Prayer Book, and read the impressive
marriage ceremony of his church. The responses were solemnly
uttered, the benediction invoked, and at that midnight hour, in the
stillness of the porter's lodge, Emile Le Grande and the young
Jewess were pronounced "man and wife." Driving quickly to the vessel
that was ready to depart for the tropical port with the first
appearance of the morning sun, Emile soon safely ensconced his bride
in the comfortable cabin, and with a feeling of joy, tinged only
with a shadowy apprehension, he bade adieu to the kind bishop, who
had accompanied them thither.

As the morning sun rose, bright and ruddy, from its eastern bed, the
vessel's gun, giving the signal for departing, sounded beyond the
foaming bar, and the newly wedded lovers were adrift, alike upon the
ocean of life and upon the blue expanse that surrounded them-adrift
to suffer a dismal shipwreck, or to anchor safely within some remote
harbor of love and security.






CHAPTER XXIV.





ANXIOUS and nervous from the expected sorrow of the coming day, Mr.