"And now, my dear Eugenia," said Mrs. Gaston, after they had become settled down, and their minds had assumed a more even flow, "clear up to me this strange mystery. Why are you here, and in this destitute condition? How did you escape death? Tell me all, or I shall still think myself only in the bewildering mazes of a dream."

(To be continued.)

SILENT THOUGHT.

BY WILLIE EDGAR TABOR.

SOMETIMES there steals across the heart

A quietness of flow,

Where gentle memories form a part,

And bid in mythic tableaux start

The scenes of long ago—