"I have laid too heavy a weight on your young heart, and I wish it were in my power to remove it; but it is not." He took a pen, as he said this, and commenced writing an answer to Fanny's letter:-- "DEAREST ONE:--Tell all to your mother; but, in doing so, let it be clearly in your mind that an eternal separation between us must follow as a consequence.

I do not say this as a threat--ah, no! Nor are you to understand that I will be offended.

No--no--no--nothing of this.

I only speak of what must come as the sure result.

The moment your father learns that I was at Woodbine Lodge, and had an interview with his daughter, at a time when he thought me far distant, our business and personal relations must cease.