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longer as he was obliged to be absent himself for some time, he should be very sorry, he added, not to meet him on his return. The young man at length con scnted to await his return, and Alvara- do sci out on his pretended journey. But instead of proceeding 10 the place he had mentioned, he remained concealed in the ncighborhood of bis own house, and when the hour arrived in which he supposed that all the inmates had retir- ed to rest, he gently stole to the door that opened into the garden, and which he w;ss surprised to find unlocked. Half an hour previous to this his wife had gone to the hut of one of the servants, a few yards distant, to administer assis- tance to female slave who was danger eusly i'll. She had not yet returned when her husband arrived. Iso his own bed chamber he cautiously proceeded, and finding his wife was absent, lis dark est suspicious were confirmed.

 Frantic withrage, he grasped his dirk, and rushing into the chamber of the ouii9 ahSef-iic" ,o ebC -uicic . was just light sufficient to discover that two persons were sleeping therein. He raised one hand, and with the other pull ing aside the clothing, plunged tii.e in- strument of death into the bosom of his own little son-who was fast asleep in the arms of the stranger. He was about to repeat the blow which also must have proved fatal to his unconscious guest, when he heard the voice of his wife, who bad just entered lower room calling for assistance, as the poor woman, she exclaimed, was expiring. The horrible truth now flashed across the mind of the wretehed Alyarado; he buried the fatal weapon in his own bosom, and fell dead upon the astonished stranger.