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Interview between Lady Gourlay and the Stranger.
-- Dandy Dulcimer makes a Discovery--The Stranger receives Mysterious Communications.
From Constitution Hill our friend drove directly to Merrion square, the residence of Lady Gourlay, whom he found alone in the drawing-room.

She welcomed him with a courtesy that was expressive at once of anxiety, sorrow, and hope.

She extended her hand to him and said, after the usual greetings were over: "I fear to ask what the result of your journey has been--for I cannot, alas! read any expression of success in your countenance." "As yet," replied the stranger, "I have not been successful, madam; but I do not despair.

I am, and have been, acting under an impression, that we shall ultimately succeed; and although I can hold out to your ladyship but very slender hopes, if any, still I would say, do not despair." Lady Gourlay was about forty-eight, and although sorrow, and the bitter calamity with which the reader is already acquainted, had left their severe traces upon her constitution and features, still she was a woman on whom no one could look without deep I interest and sympathy.