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ALICE BRIDGENORTH.

As he approached the monument of Goddard Crovan, Julian cast many an` anxious glance to see whether any object visible beside the huge grey stone should apprise him whether he was anticipated, at the appointed place of rendezvous, by her who had named it. Nor was it long before the flutter of a mantle, which the breeze slightly waved, and the motion necessary to replace it upon the wearer's shoulders, made him aware that Alice had already reached their place of meeting. One instant set the palfrey at liberty, with slackened girth and loosened reins, to pick its own way through the dell at will; another placed Julian Peveril by' the side of Alice Bridgenorth.

PEVERIL OF THE PEAK.

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