ded Don Pedro.

"Exactly so, sir; the very words upon the tip of my tongue,--satisfying
myself that you were the individual alluded to here"--as he spoke,
he drew forth a copy of the "Times" newspaper, whose well-worn and
much-thumbed edges bespoke frequent reference--"in this advertisement,"
said he, handing the paper to Don Pedro, who at once read aloud,--

"Reward of L500.--Any person giving such information as may
lead to the discovery of a young gentleman named Roland
Cashel, who served for some years on board of various
merchant vessels in the Levant, the African, and the West
India trade, and was seen in New Orleans in the autumn of
18--, will receive the above reward. He was last heard of in
Mexico, but it is believed that he has since entered the
Chilian or Columbian service. He is well known in the
Spanish Main, and in many of the cities on the coast, as the
Caballero."

Cashel's face was one burning surface of scarlet as he heard the words
of an advertisement which, in his ideas, at once associated him with
runaway negroes and escaped felons; and it was with something like
suffocation that he restrained his temper as he asked why, and by whose
authority, he was thus described?

The little man looked amazed and confounded at a question which, it
would seem, he believed his information had long since anticipated.

"Mr. Cashel wishes to know the object of this inquiry,--who sent you
hither, in fact," said Don Rica, beginning himself to lose patience at
the slowness of the stranger's apprehension.

"Mr. Kennyfeck, of Dublin, the law agent, sent me."

"Upon what grounds,--with what purpose?"

"To tell him that the suit is gained; that he is now the rightful owner
of the whole of the Godfrey and Godfrey Browne estates, and lands of Ben
Currig, Tulough Callaghan, Knock Swinery, Kildallooran, Tullimeoran,
Ballycanderigan, with all the manorial rights, privileges, and
perquisites appertaining to,--in a word, sir, for I see your impatience,
to something, a mere trifle, under seventeen thousand per annum, not to
speak of a sum, at present not exactly known, in bank, besides foreign
bonds and securities to a large amount."

While Mr. Simms recited this, with the practised volubility of one who
had often gone over the same catalogue before, Cashel stood amazed, and
almost stupefied, unable to grasp in his mind the full extent of his
good fortune, but catching, h