Robert Dennyn and Flora Leslie were never married. The frantic words that fell from poor Annie Morton’s lips, during the first moments of her hopeless insanity, disclosed Flora’s treachery, and the engagement was broken. Robert Dennyn went on his way, loved, honored, respected by all; but a lonely old age was his portion. He had too kind and good a heart to become a misanthrope; but the flowers of love in his heart were bruised and crushed—they bloomed no more for him. * * * * * =ADIEU.= =BY E. A. L.= Adieu! Adieu? In silent tears we parted, To journey on, diverging, as two beams, That from the equatorial line have started, Bending their faces toward the earth’s extremes. All day my bosom heaves with heavy sighs; All day I sing thy favorite songs and weep; All night I gaze into thy luminous eyes, Or clasp thy shadow in my feverish sleep— Oh! for the love that was for death too strong! Oh! for the sweet charmed hours that sped too soon, When thou didst steal from Beauty’s laughing throng To meet me by the soft consenting moon, Inclasp my hand in tremulous delight, And bend on me thine eyes angelically bright. * * * * * =THE RANGER’S CHASE.= =A WESTERN STORY OF THE WAR OF 1812.= =BY J. L. M’CONNEL, AUTHOR OF “TALBOT AND VERNON,” ETC.= CHAPTER I. “Come, haste to the wedding!” On the third of February, 1809, an act of Congress was passed, defining the boundaries of Illinois, and establishing the “First Grade” of Territorial Government. The population of the whole territory did not then exceed twelve thousand; and, with the exception of Chicago, and a few settlements on the Wabash, was confined to a narrow strip of country along the Mississippi. But, upon the organization of the new government, (under Governor Edwards,) the current of emigration received an impulse in this direction; and the fertile prairies, lying nearer to the centre of the state, began to attract more attention. Kaskaskia was the seat of territorial authority, as well as the nucleus of population; and it was northward, along the banks of the river of that name, that the stream of emigrants naturally took its way.