I was obliged to go the next day, with the troops, to a distant part of the country.

When I returned, I inquired at the convent what had become of Miss St.Omar--I should say Mrs.Reynolds; and I was told that she had removed from the convent to private lodgings in the town, some time previous to the birth of her child.

The abbess seemed much scandalised by the whole transaction; and I remember I relieved her mind by assuring her that there had been a regular marriage.

For poor young Reynolds's sake, I made farther inquiries about the widow, intending, of course, to act as a friend, if she was in any difficulty or distress.

But I found, on inquiry at her lodgings, that her brother had come from England for her, and had carried her and her infant away.