his features used to
wear, their expression was calm, somewhat stern, perhaps, and such as
might have reminded one who had seen him in youth of the Herbert Layton
of his college days. He had grown more silent, too, and there was in his
manner the same trait of haughty reserve which once distinguished him.
His habits of intemperance were abandoned at once, and without the
slightest reference to motive or intention he gave his son to see that
he had entered on a new course in life.

"Have you told me where we are going, Alfred, and have I forgotten it?"
said he, on the third day of the journey.

"No, father; so many other things occurred to us to talk over that I
never thought of this. It is time, however, I should tell you. We are
going to meet one who would rather make your acquaintance than be the
guest of a king."

The old man smiled with a sort of cold incredulity, and his son went
on to recount how, in collecting the stray papers and journals of the
"Doctor," as they styled him between them, this stranger had come to
conceive the greatest admiration for his bold energy of temperament and
the superior range of his intellect. The egotism, so long dormant in
that degraded nature, revived and warmed up as the youth spoke, and he
listened with proud delight at the story of all the American's devotion
to him.

"He is a man of science, then, Alfred?"

"Nothing of the kind."

"He is, at least, one of those quick-minded fellows who in this stirring
country adapt to their purpose discoveries they have had no share in
making; is he not?"

"Scarcely even that. He is a man of ordinary faculties, many prejudices,
but of a manly honesty of heart I have never seen surpassed."

"Then he is poor," said the old man, sarcastically.

"I know little of his circumstances, but I believe they are ample."

"Take my word for it, boy, they are not," said the other, with a bitter
smile. "Fortune is a thrifty goddess, and where she bestows a generous
nature she takes care it shall have nothing to give away."

"I trust your precept will not apply to this case, at all events. I have
been his pensioner for nigh a year back: I am so still. I had hoped,
indeed, by this project of lecturing--"

"Nay, nay, boy, no success could come of that. Had you been a great name
in your own country, and come here heralded by honors won already, they
would have given you a fair hearing and a generous recompense, but
they will not take as money the u