less of that troubled expression which had been for days resting there like a shadow, and he breathed as if a weight had been lifted from his breast. To one this new satisfaction and lightness of heart may have been no false presage: to the other, what an omen of unsuspected evil, disaster and death! They parted at the door of the lawyer's room, with a much warmer grasp of the hand than that with which they had met little more than a hour before; and each held the palm of the other in his for a moment, as those should do who have however slight a bond in common and between whom the waves of a whole wide ocean are so soon to roll. "A pleasant voyage and a happy return!" said the one, on the threshold. "A pleasant summer to you, wherever you are!" was the reply of the other. So parted, after that brief meeting, Henry Thornton and Carlton Brand. The bearer of that latter name, once so honored but now holding so doubtful a position, left New York by the Cunarder Scotia from Jersey City on Wednesday the 8th of July, looking his last that evening from the deck of his steamer, on the dim blue line of the Highlands--a fading speck of that native land that the fates had ordained he should never see again with his living eyes! And as at this moment we lose sight of him for the time, to trace the fortunes of others remaining on this side of the Atlantic, it may be well to say that his outward voyage must have been a safe and prosperous one, for there was duly registered as having arrived at Liverpool, on the twentieth of July, (a date which it may afterwards be important to remember) "Carlton Brand, Philadelphia." CHAPTER XI. ANOMALIES OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION--THE WATERING-PLACE RUSH OF 1863--A WHITE-MOUNTAIN PARTY DISEMBARKING AT LITTLETON--WHO FILLED THE CONCORD COACH--THE VANDERLYNS--SHODDY ON ITS TRAVELS--MR. BROOKS CUNNINGHAME AND HIS FAMILY--"H. T.," AND AN EXCITEMENT.