last a mysterious answer was sent to the effect that the deeds were in existence and should be given up but only on certain conditions and to the heir himself the young man in consequence went up to london and according to directions to an old house in where he was by a man awaiting him that he must submit to e and his guidance he was taken through several long passages before lie left the house at the termination of one of these he was put into a chair and carried about for an hour or more he always reported that there were many and that he imagined lie was set down finally not ve t far from his when his eyes were lie was in a decent sitting room with tokens of family occupation lying about k middle aged gentleman entered and told him that until a certain time had elapsed which should be indicated to him in a particular way but of which the length was not then named he must swear to secrecy as to the means by which he obtained possession of the deeds this oath was taken and then the gentleman not without some emotion acknowledged himself to be the missing father of the heir it seems that lie had fallen in love with a a of the person with whom he lodged to this young woman he had represented himself as unmarried she listened willingly to his and her father who was a in the city was not averse to the match as the squire had a goodly presence and many similar qualities which the thought might be acceptable to his customers the bargain was struck the of a race married the only daughter of the city and became a junior partner in the business he told his son that he had never repented the step lie had taken that his lowly born wife was sweet and affectionate that his family by her wo large and that he and they were and happy he inquired after his first or rather i should say his true wife with friendly affection approved of what she had done with regard to his estate and the education of his children but said that he considered he was dead to her as she was to him when he really died he promised that a particular message the nature of which he should be sent to his son at g until then they would not hear more of each other for it was of no use attempting to trace him under his even if the oath did not render such an attempt forbidden i dare say the youth had no great desire to trace out the father who had been one in name only he returned to took possession of the property at and many yea elapsed before he received the mysterious intimation of his father s real death after that he named the connected with the recovery of the title deeds to mr s and one or two intimate friends when the family became extinct or removed from it became no longer any very closely kept secret and i was told the tale of the disappearance by miss s the a ed daughter of the family agent once more let me say i am thankful i live in the days of the police if i am murdered or commit at any rate my friends will have the comfort of knowing all about it life in the mines of south the following letter has been confided to us for publication by a gentleman in london to whom it is addressed it shows what a young fellow to with the power and the will to work can do out of hand it also shows as this journal has endeavoured to do on previous occasions that those qualities are indispensable and that lazy upon the face of the earth have even less business in than in any other place if indeed they can be said to be less desirable in any one place than in another where they are all over the world so th a th it is now eight weeks since my in this colony i have deferred writing thus long so as to be enabled to state something decisive regarding both my intentions and the prospects by the country i have adopted i will give you a detail of my movements since i landed feeling assured from the ever kind interest you have evinced on my behalf it will not be we our passage here in fourteen weeks nothing worthy of comment during it after a parting with my i bade adieu to the good ship on the th of october having been with two letters for e from his father my next care was their safe delivery and to catch a glimpse of the young fellow whom i found on inquiry was with mr w at fifty miles south of i walked there in two days handed him his letters and much surprised him by my appearance he has grown a fine fellow well cut out for work and i must do him the justice to say well inclined for it i spent a day and night there and took the bone stage back again for the town of so as to make words by they had on their and the next day morning being the fourth day we found one of our boat mates lying dead iu the boat and after we said a few prayers over him we committed his body to the deep with a sorrowful heart for we were all very weak by this time and that same day about o clock another of our boat mates was taken mad and after ill using himself a good deal he jumped overboard and the soon finished him and now there were only four of us left and we suffered a good deal with thirst 