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sd THE WRONG MAN. feet and inches. He had been so wholly absorbed in the business he was about, that he was net comscious of an ap roaching footstep; and as he now turned, his teeth chatter- f , and his. eyes staring with fear, he encountered the short, thick form of the official dignitary, who, on the arrest of Dud- ley, had been appointed to discharge the important duties of jailer. He held a lantern in his hand, and the shifting light it threw upon his face showed he was enjoying the terror of the. egro. EW ell, Mr. Blackskin, what are you sneaking round here for?” said he, in a tone more good-natured than the words. _* TJ is only—jist come, Massa Ward—to—to—to see—— Massa Dudley a little minute—dat’s all,” said Cato, stammering out his reply with great difficulty. “ Well, I—is—only—jist come—on the very same business— dat’s all,” returned the jailer, mimicking the black; and then, bursting into a hearty langh at his own droliery, he continued, ox <7 of the way, snow-ball, and let me see that all is safe— t’s all.” He raised his heavy key, but, casting a hesitating glance from it to the door, which seemed to say that it was too much trouble to unlock and lock the ponderous portal when the end might as well be attained without, he turned aside, and, holding his lantern in such a way that it cast its Jight between the logs, put his eyes to a crevice, and looked into the build- ‘Ah, all’s right,” saidhe. ‘ What, asleep so early? Well, that’s the true way—it’s good to take trouble easy. You might better crawl into your bed though; but I reckou as you stuck so.close to it all day, you had rather try the bare logs for a whik. Well, 1 wish you a sound oa a sagged ;’ and so saying, the man moyed off, to the infinite reliet of poor Cato, v ho waited not long after him, but - peocientebals descend- ing the mound, secreted himself in one of the recesses of the ravine. In the mean while Dudley had gained the boat and joined his y bride, whom he pressed in eloquent silence w his nrg} ey now only waited the arrival of Enoch Sedley to BCL t _ “ Surely it is the hour by which he said he would be sty ciieuel Lace whose heart fluttered wildly with many mixed emotions. . Dudley cast an impatient » eat: towa-d the moon, of whose time of rising he seemed to know enough to assent to Lucy's — remark. Probably his answer would have been the same , « ee 3 : mal a ’e to consult ; for an impatient spirit is ever in advance of - had Bis neither moon nor stars, nor any other celestial time- hour. But, there might not have been much ground for $23 .( Prebension at first, yet, as minute after minute crept tardily yg ; comichooks:com ag df ae ;