ance, he declared, came from the house of Hodnig and
Oppovich, Fiume, who having failed since that time, there was no longer
the same necessity for reserve. "It is only this morning," he added,
"that we have received news of the death of Herr Ignaz Oppovich, the
last of this once opulent firm, now reduced to utter ruin."

My mother and I gazed on each other in silence as we read these words,
when at length she threw her arms around me and said, "Let us go to her,
Digby; let us set out this very day."

Two days after we were on the Rhine. I was seated with my mother on the
deck of a river steamer, when I was startled to hear a voice utter my
name. The speaker was a burly stout man of middle age, who walked the
deck with a companion to whom he talked in a loud tone.

"I tell you, sir," said he, "that boy of Norcott's, what between those
new coal-fields and the Hexham property, can't have less than ten
thousand a year."

"And he's going to marry a rich Austrian Jewess, they say," replied the
other, "as if his own fortune was not enough for him."

"He'll marry her, and desert her just as his father did."

I have but to say that I accomplished one part of this prediction, and
hope never to fulfil the other.

THE END.

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