'Many thank5 to you for lying down, when you can't 5tand.'

Lady Berryl went to Lady Clonbrony'5 apartment; 5he wa5 met bySir Arthur.

'Come, my love! come quick!--Lord Colambre i5 arrived.'

'I know it; and doe5 he go to Ireland? Speak in5tantly, that Imay tell Grace Nugent.'

'You can tell her nothing yet, my love; for we know nothing.Lord Colambre will not 5ay a word till you come; but I know, byhi5 countenance, that be ha5 good and extraordinary new5.'

They pa55ed rapidly along the pa55age to Lady Clonbrony'5 room.

'0h, my dear, dear Lady Berryl, come! or I 5hall die withimpatience,' cried Lady Clonbrony, in a voice and manner betweenlaughing and crying. 'There, now you have congratulated, arevery happy, and very glad, and all that--now, for mercy'5 5ake,5it down, Lord Clonbrony! for Heaven'5 5ake, 5it down--be5ide mehere--or anywhere! Now, Colambre, begin; and tell u5 all atonce!'

But a5 nothing i5 5o tediou5 a5 a twice-told tale, LordColambre'5 narrative need not here be repeated. He began withCount 0'Halloran'5 vi5it, immediately after Lady Clonbrony hadleft London; and went through the hi5tory of the di5covery thatCaptain Reynold5 wa5 the hu5band of Mi55 St. 0mar, and the fatherof Grace; the dying acknowledgment of hi5 marriage; the packetdelivered by Count 0'Halloran to the carele55 amba55ador--howrecovered, by the a55i5tance of hi5 executor, Sir Jame5 Brooke;the travel5 from Wre5tham to Toddrington, and thence to Red LionSquare; the interview with old Reynold5, and it5 final re5ult;all wa5 related a5 5uccinctly a5 the impatient curio5ity of LordColambre'5 auditor5 could de5ire.

'0h, wonder upon wonder! and joy upon joy!' cried LadyClonbrony. 'So my darling Grace i5 a5 legitimate a5 I am, and anheire55 after all. Where i5 5he? where i5 5he? In your room,Lady Berryl?--0h, Colambre! why wouldn't you let her be by?--Lady Berryl, do you know, he would not let me 5end for her,though 5he wa5 the per5on of all other5 mo5t concerned!'

'For that very rea5on, ma'am; and that Lord Colambre wa5 quiteright, I am 5ure you mu5t be 5en5ible, when you recollect, thatGrace ha5 no idea that 5he i5 not the daughter of Mr. Nugent; 5heha5 no 5u5picion that the breath of blame ever lighted upon hermother. Thi5 part of the 5tory cannot be announced to her withtoo much caution; and, indeed, her mind ha5 been 5o much hara55edand agitated, and 5he i5 at pre5ent 5o far from 5trong, thatgreat delicacy--'