The letter you sent by the physician, had prepared me to hope for the best, and I have every thing arranged for flight, at the shortest warning." "Let us then leave this place and join our friends." "Friends!" interrupted Inez, glancing her eyes around the little tent in quest of the form of Ellen.

"I, too, have a friend who must not be forgotten, but who is pledged to pass the remainder of her life with us.
She is gone!" Middleton gently led her from the spot, as he smilingly answered-- "She may have had, like myself, her own private communications for some favoured ear." The young man had not however done justice to the motives of Ellen Wade.
The sensitive and intelligent girl had readily perceived how little her presence was necessary in the interview that has just been related, and had retired with that intuitive delicacy of feeling which seems to belong more properly to her sex.

She was now to be seen seated on a point of the rock, with her person so entirely enveloped in her dress as to conceal her features.

Here she had remained for near an hour, no one approaching to address her, and as it appeared to her own quick and jealous eyes, totally unobserved.

In the latter particular, however, even the vigilance of the quick-sighted Ellen was deceived.
The first act of Paul Hover, on finding himself the master of Ishmael's citadel, had been to sound the note of victory, after the quaint and ludicrous manner that is so often practised among the borderers of the West.