"Take some medicine, Alfy," exclaimed mamma, when she saw that I turned with disgust from my breakfast. Kind, well-meant words, but what medicine would ease my sorely-distressed mind. But no, I could not eat; and though hours too soon, I could contain myself no longer, but hurried off, engaged a cab, driven by a tiger, who afterwards preyed fearfully upon my pocket, and then had the vehicle posted, where, unseen, I could watch the door of her habitation. The hours passed slowly away as I sat gnawing my fingers, and comparing the present tempest of the heart with the past bliss. "Go, ungrateful!" I exclaimed aloud. "Where, sir?" said the cabman; coming to the door and touching his hat. "No where;" I exclaimed, "stay here." "Certainly sir, only I thought you shouted." At length the wretch slept upon his box, whilst I, wretch that I was, envied the poor fellow, and longed for peace and rest from the burning, maddening, torturing pain I suffered. Then I started, for I saw her page come from the house, and in a short space of time return with a cab. She, false girl, was evidently waiting in the hall--yes, ready now for an assignation, though I had been kept an hour at a time when about to take her to horticultural fete or opera--and directly after and still more closely veiled, she tripped lightly over the pavement and entered the vehicle. My driver was already well tutored, but he was asleep. "Follow that cab!" I cried, hurriedly, as I poked at the somnolent wretch with my cane. "Aw right;" he exclaimed; till I savagely thrust at his ear, when he roused up with a start, jerked the reins, and began to follow the wrong cab. "No! no!" I shrieked, excitedly; "the other street. That! that! The one turning the corner." "Then why didn't yer say so at first;" growled the ruffian, blaming me for his own neglect; when on jangled the wretched vehicle closely behind that containing the false one, whilst I pressed and stifled down the feelings battling for escape. Then I endeavoured to arrest the desire to stay her in the street, and prevent the meeting my instinct told me was to take place; for I was determined to confront them, and then cast her off in his vile presence, ere in the far-off Antipodean South I fled, to seek forgetfulness or a grave.