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schools OF anatomy at San Lucar and Cordovia-
obtained the Emperor's permission to visit them,
quilted Seville, ostensby for that purpose but re-
turned the same night, concealed himself in a ten
| ement belonging 10 him, at some distance from his
| abode In Alcazar; which was devoted to the double
purpose Of a labratory and dissecting room. He
mad taken no person into his confidence; he was a.
lone IN his vengeance, and he listened to his own
counsel. AT dark in the following evening he is
sued forth, mufiied to the eyes in a woman's man
tie and hood, and left note at Don Alvars habita-
ZION, containing an embroidered glove Of Isabella 3
and these sorls.
81 have obtained the key to Ve.ale's labrator,,
during his absence; be at the gate an hour after
midnight, and you will be admitted on pronouncing
the name of Isabella"
The assignation was promptly kept by Don Al
var. AT an hour past midnight he left his house,
alone; but he never returned to it. Whittier he had
gone none could say nor could any trace of him
ever be discovered. II was supposed he must have
missed his footing and fallen in the Guadelquver,
near which his abode was situated and that his
o'dy had been swept away by the waves into the
ocean.
Such an occurrence calculated to produce
great sensation in the place where it happened and
pesale recalled three weeks AFTER by the illness of
his wife, found the disappearance of Don Alvar the
Isabella was attributed, by Vesae, to grief for the
myterious absence of Don Avar, and that convic-
ton took from him all pity for her sufferings
IL Glanced 10 be the festival of Santa Isabella,
and In honor of her patron saint, as well as to cele-
eate the return of her husband Isabella put on her
wedding dress, and seated herself by an open case
mens that overlooked the Alvar gardens she watch
ed for his coming. But willis. her eyes were vainly
fixed upon the path by which she expected him to
appear, hand was laid upon her shoulder, and,
turning round she beheld Vesale standing by her.
81 have ordered the supper to be laid in my stu
dy," said he: and taking her hand, he led her a
way TO the room in question, dismissed the attend
ant and closed the door. Everything wore fes-
tive air; yet the repast cheerless. Perceiving
that she tasted nothing, Vesale poured few drops
from vial of elixir in cup of Malaga wine, and
presenting il TO her:
Drink this" he said ''it is sovereign cure
for the complaint you are suffering from"
"Pledge me in the draught," she replied, filling
up goblet from the same flask, and handing it to
him, land 1t will bring quicker healing to me-
Let US drink to our absent friend, Andre"
Iesale accepted the offering, and they emptied
their goblets together.
| Talking of absent friends" said he and sud
denly fixing his eyes upon her 9'you have not spo-
ken TO me Of Don Alvar de Soils. Are all hopes OF
hearing from him relinquished. He was braggart
and hbertne, and boasled that no woman ever re-
sisted his seducons, that no husband ever suspect
ed The injury he was preparing for him." Then.
grasping his wife by lhe hand he led her up TO a
door at the farther end of the room, and throwing
1t wide open, revealed TO her view skeleton sus,
pended within, holding in one of his bony hands
one of her embroidered gloves.
| "Behod,' he said, pointing to the phastlv spec
tacle, ''the gallant and beautiful Don Alvar de Soils
the object OF your guilty love-contemplate hin
we'll, If the sight can render your moments happier
Tor you are about to die too; the wine have JUS
! given you was poisoned"
! When the last dreadful sentence, and it's still
more dreadful illustration, burst upon her affrghet
senses, she became paralyzed with excess of emo
died there, In stranglng murmurs, and sinking back
she Tell, as one dead, upon the arms Of Vesae.
one was not dead, however; he had not poison
ed her that crime he had hesitated to commit, We
ne was none the less her murderer. ConvulsoI
followed convulsion, and at last she died and, il
that supreme moment, the hour that preceded death
ner husband, who never quilted her, beheld one O
those phenomena which sometimes attends the DIV
Ing. Awakening from torpid slumber, conscious
ness and memory returned at once, and with them
a calm, and courage she had never possessed in TIT
flush of life.
ANDRE" said she, fixing her eyes on her hus
oand, 81 am dying by your hand, yet am limo
cent; l never wronged you by thought deed
Don Alyar pursued me with his love and threats
but | repulsed him. | never loved but you.
feared and honored you much as loved, but
cared not tell you of his pursuit Oh, Andre, be
lleve my words the dying deal not in falsehoods
Should be thus calm were guilty %
| Yesale, sinking upon his knee, solemnly protest
ed his faith in the innocence of his wife, and will
choking sobs ahjured her to believe that he only
ielgned TO give her poison that he could not nerve
his hand to take away her life; bu. the terror o
death, and not death itself, was upon her And
while yet he spoke, Isabel murmured-
Thanks be to Heaven for this :" and, drawing
his hand towards her, laid it upon her heart, and
as he did SO, it ceased to beat.