20, long.

40, and there cruise till they had captured the Pretender, _alias_ Stroke, and destroyed his Lair.

A somewhat unfavorable personal description of Stroke was appended, with a map of the coast, and a stern warning to all loyal subjects not to delay as one Ailie was in the villain's hands and he might kill her any day.

Victoria Regina would give five hundred pounds for his head.

The letter ended in manly style with the writer's sending an affecting farewell message to his wife and little children.
"And so while we are playing ourselves," said Mr.McLean to Miss Ailie, "your favorite is seeking my blood." "Our favorite," interposed the school-mistress, and he accepted the correction, for neither of them could forget that their present relations might have been very different had it not been for Tommy's faith in the pass-book.