No trace of Marina was visible, no harp or other instrument of harmony, and the cold lunar light streamed through a void space instead of the glass door. He sprang up and called aloud: ‘Marina! Marina!’ But only an echo as of empty rooms answered. Almost distracted he rushed into the open air. A child was standing alone at the garden gate, who advanced towards him and said: ‘I will lead you to Marina Angus; she has removed from that house to another.’ Albion followed the child till they came to a long row of tall dark trees leading to a churchyard, which they entered, and the child vanished, leaving Albion beside a white marble tombstone on which was chiselled:— MARINA ANGUS She died 18th of June 1815 at 12 o’clock midnight. When Albion had read this he felt a pang of horrible anguish wring his heart and convulse his whole frame. With a loud groan he fell across the tomb and lay there senseless a long time, till at length he was waked from the death-like trance to behold the spirit of Marina, which stood beside him for a moment, and then murmuring, ‘Albion, I am happy, for I am at peace,’ disappeared! For a few days he lingered round her tomb, and then quitted Strathelleraye, where he was never again heard of. The reason of Marina’s death I shall briefly relate. Four years after Albion’s departure tidings came to the village that he was dead. The news broke Marina’s faithful heart. The day after, she was no more. C. B., _October 12th_, 1830. THE RIVALS THE RIVALS A SHORT DRAMA WRITTEN BY CHARLOTTE BRONTË AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN YEARS. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ LORD ARTHUR. _The Rivals:_ MARIAN. LADY ZENOBIA ELLRINGTON. These characters will be easily recognised under their assumed names in the story entitled ‘Albion and Marina,’ pp. 75-94. THE RIVALS SCENE—_A thick forest, under the trees of which_ LADY ZENOBIA ELLRINGTON _is reposing, dressed in her usual attire of a crimson-velvet robe and black plumes. She speaks_: