ath his tread. It was the
beggar who had accosted Anielka. On a rising ground he turned to gaze
on the terrible scene.

"No more unfortunate creatures will now be doomed to pass their lives
in your dungeons," he exclaimed. "What was _my_ crime? Reminding my
master of the lowness of his birth. For this they tore me from my only
child--my darling little Anielka; they had no pity even for her orphan
state; let them perish all!"

Suddenly a young and beautiful creature rushes wildly to one of the
principal windows: she makes a violent effort to escape. For a moment
her lovely form, clothed in white, shines in terrible relief against
the background of blazing curtains and walls of fire, and as instantly
sinks back into the blazing element. Behind her is another figure,
vainly endeavoring to aid her--he perishes also: neither of them are
ever seen again!

This appalling tragedy horrified even the perpetrator of the crime. He
rushed from the place, and as he heard the crash of the falling walls,
he closed his ears with his hands, and darted on faster and faster.

The next day some peasants discovered the body of a man frozen
to death, lying on a heap of snow--it was that of the wretched
incendiary. Providence, mindful of his long, of his cruel imprisonment
and sufferings, spared him the anguish of knowing that the mistress of
the palace he had destroyed, and who perished in the flames, was his
own beloved daughter--the Serf of Pobereze!

* * * * *

A TRUE POET never takes a "poetic license."

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FROM THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.

THE MYSTERIOUS COMPACT.

IN TWO PARTS.--PART I.

In the latter years of the last century, two youths, Ferdinand Von
Hallberg and Edward Von Wensleben were receiving their education in
the military academy of Mariensheim. Among their schoolfellows they
were called Orestes and Pylades, or Damon and Pythias, on account
of their tender friendship, which constantly recalled to their
schoolfellows' minds the history of these ancient worthies. Both were
sons of officers who had long served the state with honor, both were
destined for their father's profession, both accomplished and endowed
by nature with no mean talents. But fortune had not been so impartial
in the distribution of her favors--Hallberg's father lived on a small
pension, by means of which he defrayed the expenses of his son's
schooling at the cost of the