quarters, that I stopped to listen, and heard the
water-drops again in Gorin's Dome, whispering, "Hush! hush! hush!" And
from all the gloomy chambers and tunnels came the echo, breathing,
"Hush! hash! hush!"

It began to be terrifying to think that release from this hell of
silence was dependent upon one man's will, and he too a man I had never
seen until within a few hours. Where was he now, my dark-faced guide?
What if he should not be able to find me again in the midst of this
hundred miles of tunnels that look so much alike? What if he should not
intend to come? What if--But, thank Heaven! there he is at last! That is
the firm, substantial sound of a mortal footstep; not those stealthy,
phantom steps I seemed to hear before! There too is the distant glinting
of the red lamplight on the sides of the cave! How long it takes him to
get here! There he is at last! Blessed be his black face! how unlike the
pale, phosphorescent forms I fancied just a little while ago! How
foolish seem all those dreadful fancies now, so terribly real then!

AN AUTUMN SONG.

Below the headland with its cedar-plumes
A lapse of spacious water twinkles keen,
An ever-shifting play of gleams and glooms
And flashes of clear green.

The sumac's garnet pennons where I lie
Are mingled with the tansy's faded gold;
Fleet hawks are screaming in the light-blue sky,
And fleet airs rushing cold.

The plump peach steals the dying rose's red;
The yellow pippin ripens to its fall;
The dusty grapes, to purple fulness fed,
Droop from the garden-wall.

And yet, where rainbow foliage crowns the swamp,
I hear in dreams an April robin sing,
And memory, amid this Autumn pomp,
Strays with the ghost of Spring.

BY-WAYS OF EUROPE.

A VISIT TO THE BALEARIC ISLANDS.

I.

As the steamer Mallorca slowly moved out of the harbor of Barcelona, I
made a rapid inspection of the passengers gathered on deck, and found
that I was the only foreigner among them. Almost without exception they
were native Majorcans, returning from trips of business or pleasure to
the Continent. They spoke no language except Spanish and Catalan, and
held fast to all the little habits and fashions of their insular life.
If anything more had been needed to show me that I was entering upon
untrodden territory, it was supplied by the joyous surprise of the
steward when I gave him a f