popular Cardinal-Archbishop of Sulaco declared sig

nificantly, menacingly. A silence ensued, during which his eminence stared frowning at the ground, and Antonia, graceful and rigid in her chair, breathed calmly in the streng1.li of her convictions. Then the conversation took a social turn, touching on the visit of the Goulds to Europe. The Cardinal -Archbishop, when in Rome, had suffered from neuralgia in the head all the time. It was the climate the bad air. When uncle and niece had gone away, with the ser- . vants again falling on their knees, and the old porter,-^ who had known Henry Gould, almost totally blin< and impotent now, creeping up to kiss his Eminence': extended hand, Dr. Monygham, looking after them pronounced the one word: " Incorrigible!" Mrs. Gould, with a look upward, dropped wearil on her lap her white hands flashing with the gold am stones of many rings. "Conspiring. Yes!" said the doctor. "The last the Avellanos and the last of the Corbelans are con- spiring with the refugees from Sta. Marta that floe! here after every revolution. The Cafe Lambroso at th< corner of the Plaza, is full of them; you can hear thei chatter across the street like the noise of a parrot-housi They are conspiring for the invasion of Costagui And do you know where they go for strength, for th necessary force? To the secret societies among im migrants and natives, where Nostromo I should sa Captain Fidanza is the great man. What gives hi

that position? Who can say? Genius? He h