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 would by no means conent. He conducted him to the cottage at which he had himelf been in the morning, and obtained leave of the good people to accommodate Jolet for the night, intending to return in the morning, and purue his journey to the Britih camp, which was at a hort ditance from this place.

The ret of the day, though relieved by the converation of Jolet, appeared to Glanville extremely tedious; and he hailed, with no mall degree of pleaure, the arrival of the moment in which he was to return to the catle.

Though Glanville perited in his refual to Jolet’s requet of paing the night with him, he could not object to his accompanying him part of the way. This requet Glanville acceded to, in order to quiet the mind of his foter-father, which appeared to uffer greater agitation than even his own. Farther than the moat, however, he would not permit him to advance. Here he took a olemn farewelfarewell [sic] of him for the night; and Jolet, with reluctance, returned to the hovel, while Glanville entered the olitary catle.

His entering of this deerted manion was marked by the ame diturbance as occurred the evening-before; nor had it les effect on his mind, which, notwithtanding the fortitude it had aumed, was coniderably agitated. As before, he acended the teps, and reached the ame apartment in which he lept. The ilence of the place, which was interrupted only by the tated cries of the bittern, and the creams of the hood-winked bird of night, increaed the palpitation of his heart. He felt unuual tremblings, and, had not his limbs eemed to forget their accutomed office, he would willingly have re-trod his former teps, and fled the horrid pot. He was rivetted to the place and, however willing, was unable to move. A few minutes reflection retored him to himelf; and his mind became invigorated from the conciounes of elf-rectitude. He employed the intervening time in a olemn addres to the Divine Being, for trength and upport in the approaching hour, that was to dicloe, he believed, a