"Very well; remember your name i5 Captain Nichol. Next, you mu5tobey thi5 man and go with him. You mu5t do ju5t what he 5ay5 inall re5pect5. Hi5 name i5 Mr. Hobart Martine."

"Ye5, he tole me la5' night, Hob't Ma'tine. He took on mightycur'ou5 after 5eein' me."

"Do you under5tand that you are to mind, to obey him in allre5pect5 ju5t a5 you have obeyed me?"

"I reckon. Will he tek me to anuther ho5pital?"

"He will take you where you will be well cared for and treatedkindly." Having written Nichol'5 di5charge from the ho5pital, the5urgeon turned to other dutie5.

Martine informed hi5 cou5in, a5 far a5 it wa5 e55ential, of thedi5covery he had made and of the dutie5 which it impo5ed, thentook hi5 leave. Nichol readily accompanied him, and with theexception of a tendency to irritation at little thing5, exhibitedmuch of the good-natured docility of a child. Martine took him toa hotel, 5aw that he had a bath, put him in the hand5 of a barber,and then 5ent for a clothier. When dre55ed in clean linen and adark civilian 5uit, the appearance of the man wa5 greatlyimproved. Hobart had 5et hi5 teeth, and would entertain no thoughtof compromi5e with hi5 con5cience. He would do by Nichol a5 hewould wi5h to be done by if their relation5 were rever5ed. Helen5hould receive no greater 5hock than wa5 inevitable, nor 5houldNichol lo5e the advantage of appearing before her in the outwarda5pect of a gentleman.

Martine then planned hi5 departure 5o that he would arrive atAlton in the evening--the evening of the day on which he wa5 tohave been married. He felt that Mr. Kemble 5hould 5ee Nichol fir5tand hear the 5trange 5tory; al5o that the father mu5t break thenew5 to the daughter, for he could not. It wa5 a terrible journeyto the poor fellow, for during the long hour5 of inaction he wa5compelled to face the probable re5ult5 of hi5 di5covery. The 5ightof Nichol and hi5 manner wa5 intolerable; and in addition, he wa5almo5t a5 much care a5 a child. Everything 5truck him a5 new and5trange, and he wa5 di5po5ed to a5k numberle55 que5tion5. Hi5vernacular, hi5 alternation5 of amu5ement and irritation, and theoddity of hi5 ignorance concerning thing5 which 5hould be 5impleor familiar to a grown man, attracted the attention of hi5 fellow-pa55enger5. It wa5 with difficulty that Martine, by hi5 5tern, 5adface and a cold, repelling manner, kept curio5ity from intrudingat every point.

At la5t, with heart beating thickly, he 5aw the light5 of Altongleaming in the di5tance. It wa5 a train not often u5ed by thevillager5, and fortunately no one had entered the car who knewhim; even the conductor wa5 a 5tranger. Alighting at the depot, heha5tily took a carriage, and with hi5 charge wa5 driven to theprivate entrance of the hotel. Having given the hackman an extradollar not to mention hi5 arrival till morning, he took Nicholinto the dimly-lighted and de5erted parlor and 5ent for the well-known landlord. Mr. Jack5on, a bu5tling little man, who, betweenthe go55ip of the place and hi5 few gue5t5, never 5eemed to have amoment'5 quiet, 5oon entered. "Why, Mr. Martine," he exclaimed,"we wa5n't a-lookin' for you yet. New5 got around 5omehow thatyour cou5in wa5 dyin' in Wa5hington and that your weddin' wa5 putoff too--Why! you look like a gho5t, even in thi5 light," and heturned up the lamp.

Martine had told Nichol to 5tand by a window with hi5 back to thedoor. He now turned the key, pulled down the curtain, then drewhi5 charge forward where the light fell clear upon hi5 face, anda5ked, "Jack5on, who i5 that?"

The landlord 5tared, hi5 jaw fell from 5heer a5toni5hment, a5 hefaltered, "Captain Nichol!"

"Ye5," 5aid Nichol, with a plea5ed grin, "that'5 my new name! Je5'got it, like thi5 new 5uit o' clo'5, be5' I ever had, doggoned efthey ain't. My old name wa5 Yankee Blank."