LORD M—— AND HIS BABOON. 225 
fortunes I would fain have followed; but he repressed. 
that wish, and journeyed despondent and solitary 
to the land of the stranger.” 
** Despondent !”” echoed Lady Louisa. 
“Yes,” replied the old man; ‘‘the cause I only 
fancied. Young people do not always reflect before 
they act with coldness and indifference to each 
other.’ Lady Louisa sighed heavily. ‘If he be 
dead,’’ said he,— 
*« Dead !” interrupted his auditress, almost gasping. 
‘J fear,” rejoined the old man—“ I fear the worst.” 
The young lady leant against a tree almost fainting. 
“* Heavens!” exclaimed the old servant, ‘“‘ what is 
that?” 
Lady Louisa opened her eyes at the strangeness 
of this peroration, but had scarcely done so, when, 
running from the tree, she set up a scream so dread- 
ful that it is impossible to give even a remote idea 
of it, and falling en the ground, the Baboon of Lord 
M was seen clinging to her and gnashing its 
teeth. Leaving her almost immediately, the animal 
hastened to the tree, and from a dry and hollow part 
of it, pulled out a large package of letters, which 
it kept turning over as mechanically as a twopenny- 
postman. Almost at the same moment Lord M 
approached ; he raised the person who had fallen, 
and beheld—one whom he had watched for many 
days without having decided to make himself known 
to her. We pass over the scene which followed, 
and which those who have been as attached as were 
