Brotherly Love.

The spot where the Maniac was interred gave rise to strange surmises for it was in a vault under the mural monument already mentioned , and in which poor St . Claire and a lady of rank were buried . The tablet bore the following inscription : — " Sacred to the memory of these who loved in life and rest together in death . " It appeared that the vault had been placed at the disposal of Mrs . St . Claire shortly after the death of her

husband , under certain conditions relative to the interment of the unknown donor in the same tomb . The widow , who had only buried her husband a few days previously in an lnunble cemetery assigned to paupers , actuated by an amiable weakness had his remains removed to the vault which con- < tamed one coffin , with the remains of Agnes on the plate , and having rich armorial bearings , indicating that the deceased was a lady of rank . The

circumstance of the Maniac being buried in the tomb with her husband created no small surprise in Mrs . St . Claire ' s mind , but she was compelled to admit that it was above her comprehension . If some of those writers who have given the world tomes on misty metaphysical and religious points had arrived at the same conclusion , what a vast saving of baseless theory , perverted ingenuity , and futile controversy , would have been effected .

If Mrs . St . Claire had felt any ordinary desire to speculate on this or any other subject at the time , she would not have been able to have done so , for sorrow and threatened penury had visited her abode . She had received an account , that her nephew , Alfred Beaufrere had been severely wounded , and that his life was in imminent danger . He was the only child of a deceased sister to whom she was much attached , and had

brought him up until his twelfth year , so that she loved him with almost as much affection as if he had been her own son . She was also proud of his beauty , amiability and talents . Ida regarded him as a brother , and was deeply distressed at the intelligence , which was confirmed by a letter from him , the contents of which placed his character in a stronger light than ever . He said that he knew he could not recover , and that he

would endeavour to gratify his only wish , and that was to breathe his last in her arms . He told her , that he was in love with her , but that aware of the feelings of mutual affection subsisting between her and Simon , he had

abstained from giving any indication of his passion , which only the conviction of approaching dissolution induced him to disclose . He added that he had endeavoured to atone for any annoyance he had occasioned Simon , for that it was in saving him he had received his death wound . A month had elapsed beyond the time that Mrs . St . Claire should have received her quarterly allowance , and the gloomiest apprehensions seized

her mind . She imagined that her secret benefactor had either discontinued his remittances , or was dead , and had made no provision for a continuation ¦ of his pension . All the horrors of destitution stared her in the face , and it was only from the religious counsel and consolation of Jeunegrace and Ida that she could view with resignation the calamity with which she was threatened . The former having ascertained the cause of her anxiety took an early opportunity , and in the most delicate manner , of offering to secure her and her daughter a provision out of his own means in the event