What is the title ?" "'The Bandit's Bride.' This is the way it opens:-- "'The night was tempestuous.

Lightnings flashed in the cerulean sky, and the deep-voiced thunder rolled from one end of the firmament to the other.

It was a landscape in Spain.

From a rocky defile gayly pranced forth a masked cavalier, Roderigo di Lima, a famous bandit chief.
"'"Ha! ha!" he laughed in demoniac glee, "the night is well fitted to my purpose.

Ere it passes, Isabella Gomez shall be mine."'" "I think that will do," said Mr.Houghton, hastily.