efer to know the sequel. As I have already told you, it was in
September they were married. On the morning they left Kentuck the
weather was extremely hot, with queer little clouds hanging about the
mountains. They took the road up the canon, toward McGibeney's
ranch--laughing and chatting, as they rode along side by side, Anne
replying to every lark singing by the roadside in a voice almost as
musical.

Well, if it must be told, there was a cloud-burst on the mountains about
noon that day. Not four hours after they had taken leave of him, Kentuck
received their poor bruised bodies at his very threshold, brought there
without the interposition of human hands. Wilson's Bar will long
remember that day. The fire took chiefly that which could be replaced;
but the flood washed out claims, ruined aqueducts, and destroyed lives
of men and brutes, carrying away with it the labors and hopes of years.

MISS JORGENSEN.

I am a plain, elderly, unmarried man, and I board at Mrs. Mason's. A
great deal of what I am about to relate came under my own observation;
and the remainder was confided to me from time to time by my landlady,
with whom I am upon terms of friendship and intimacy, having had a home
in her house for a period of seven years.

Mrs. Mason lives in her own tenement, in a quiet part of the city; and
besides myself, has usually three or four other boarders, generally
teachers, or poor young authors--some person always of the class that,
having few other pleasures, makes it a point to secure rooms with a fine
view of the bay. When Miss Jorgensen came to us, we were a quiet,
studious, yet harmonious and happy family; so well satisfied with our
little community that we did not take kindly to the proposed addition to
our circle when Mrs. Mason mentioned it. Neither did our landlady seem
to desire any change; but she explained to us that the young person
applying had made a strong appeal; that her classes (she was a teacher
of French) were principally in our part of the city; and that she would
be satisfied with a mere closet for a room. The only privilege for which
she stipulated was the use of the common parlor twice a week to receive
her company in.

"But I cannot agree to give up the parlor any single evening," Mrs.
Mason replied, "because it is used by all the family, every evening. You
will be entitled to the same privileges with the others." After some
hesitation this was agreed to, and our new boarder was