His glance was fixed on one of a little group, all of whom, with the exception of this individual, were familiar to his home and heart.

He was clothed as a monk; but his cowl was thrown back, and his gaze so fixed on Marie that she blushed beneath it, and turned away.
"Do not turn from me, my child," he said; and Henriquez started at the voice, it was so fraught with memories of the departed.

"Stranger as I must be, save in name, to thee--thou art none such to me.

I seem to feel thy mother once again before me--and never was sister more beloved!--Manuel, hast thou, indeed, forgotten Julien ?" Almost ere he ceased to speak, the long separated relatives were clasped in each, other's arms.

The five-and-twenty years, which had changed the prime of manhood into advancing age, and blanched the hair of each, had had no power to decrease the strong ties of kindred, so powerful in their secret race.