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 as swindlers be disposed of as they deserve."

Ellis, turning pale, sunk upon a chair.

Mrs. Howel, stopping, with a voice as hard as her look was implacable, added; "This is your last moment for repentance. Will you give your promise, upon oath?"

"No, Madam! again no!" cried Ellis, starting up with sudden energy: «© What I have suffered shall teach me to suffer more, and what I have escaped, shall give me hope for my support! But never will I plight myself, by willing promise, to avoid those whose virtuous goodness and compassion offer me the only consolation, that, in my desolate state, I can receive!"

"Tis well!" said Mrs. Howel, "You have yourself, then, only, to thank for what ensues."

She now steadily went on, opened the door, and left the room, though Ellis, mournfully following her, called out: Ah, Madam!—ah, Mrs. Howel!—if ever