"DEAR AUNT MARY ANN,--I hope you will forgive me! Georgie writes word that you have been in a way about me. I thought you'd be _sure_ to guess it was only a trick. I did it to give a thorough fright to that wicked cat; you can't think how full of malice she is. I put on my old navy-blue serge and close winter bonnet, which no one would be likely to miss or remember, and carried the other things to the edge of the pond and left them there. While you were at supper I stole away, caught the last train at Crabb Junction, and surprised Clementina at Edgbaston. She promised to be secret--she hates that she-cat--and the next morning I started for Guernsey. Clementina did not tell Georgie till a week ago, after she heard that Valentine would not believe it, and then Georgie wrote to me and blew me up. I am enchanted to hear that the toad passes her nights in horrid fear of seeing my ghost, and that her yellow hair is turning blue; Georgie says it is.--Your ever affectionate and repentant niece, "JULIETTA. "P.S.--I hope you will believe I am very sorry for paining you, dear Aunt Mary Ann. And I want to tell you that I think it likely I shall soon be married. An old gentleman out here who has a beautiful house and lots of money admires me very much. Please let Fred Scott know this." And so, there it was--Julietta was in the land of the living and had never been out of it. And we had gone through our fright and pain unnecessarily, and the poor eels had been disturbed for nothing. * * * * * They were married at the little church at Duck Brook; no ceremony, hardly anyone invited to it. Mr. Preen gave Jane away. Tom Chandler and Emma were there, and Mrs. Jacob Chandler and Mrs. Cramp. Jane asked me to go--to see the last of her, she said. She wore a plain silk dress of a greyish colour, and a white straw bonnet with a bit of orange blossom--which she took off before they started on their journey. For they went off at once to Liverpool--and would sail the next day for their new home. And Valentine is always steady and prospering, and Jane says Canada is better than England and she wouldn't come back for the world. And Juliet is married and lives in Guernsey, and drives about with her old husband in his handsome carriage and pair. But Mrs. Cramp has not forgiven her yet. THE SILENT CHIMES I.--PUTTING THEM UP I The events of this history did not occur within my own recollection, and I can only relate them at second-hand--from the Squire and others. They are curious enough; especially as regard the three parsons--one following upon another--in their connection with the Monk family, causing no end of talk in Church Leet parish, as well as in other parishes within earshot.