The Wizard of West Penwith

r and daughter being on friendly terms with them;-indeed he rather wished it, and was never more pleased than when they were visiting a

reeman would walk quietly into the room, and relate some thrilling story, and disappear again in the same mysterious manner. These scenes would be talked over the next day by the gossips, and after going the round for a few days, the

ister," who stored them in his memory till opportunities arose for using his information with advantage. And when those ignorant people applied to him to be informed by whom they were ill-wished, or to recover their property, perhaps, which had been stolen, he could guess pretty nearly w

were several in that locality; and the tumuli in the neighbourhood of the chapels, supposed to contain the ashes of the Druids and other holy men, afforded great scope to her imagination. Her father, as we have seen, was not very regular in his habits-indeed it would

the Longships, when she heard herself addressed by some one overhead, and, on looking up, she saw a handsome young man looking down on her from the rocks which overhung her resting-place. It w

nded her hand towards the intruder, who clasped her in his arms, while she exclaimed, without attempting t

o years ago, so unexpectedly, I thought it would have been a longer separation; but it was cruel of you, Alrina, not

he servants at the school discovered our secret meetings in the garden, and told

o was not so scrupulous, to manage one more meeting, as it was the l

lept in my room was suddenly taken ill, just after we went to bed, and the servant who

nation has relieved my mind from anxious

to address a letter to you. I wrote to your sister, who had been a day-pupil at the same school, and through

yself and my position than I thought it necessary to tell, or you to ask, in any of our clandestine meetings,-we had other things to think of and talk about then. I have since been kn

d not been rubbed off by contact with the world, but, on the contrary, had increased;-her life had b

my refuge from the monotony and mystery of home; and here I have ofttimes given vent to my feelings, when I thought and knew I was unobserved. But tell

and made all the inquiry in my power, but without avail. I went to the school. The mistress was dead, and the school given up. I had a month's furlough; and, hearing that an old schoolfellow had an appointment at a signal-station near the Land's-End, I packed up my traps in a carpet-bag, and arrived at my friend's station, at Tol-pedn-Penwith about a week since. My friend is a bachelor;-he is several years my senior, but a right jolly fellow. His name is Fowler. He introduced me to the squire's family at Pendrea-house. The squire has been a queer old chap in his time, I believe; but his wife seems a good old soul, and the two daughters are charming;-but the name of Freeman was always in my thoughts. In the course of conversation after dinner at the squire's the other day, some one said that there was a celebrated conjuror residing near the Land's-End, whose name was Freeman. I felt a thrill run

ikely you will have to go to 'the conjuror,' after all, if you wish to know an

rederick, in great surpris

nages to awe the people here into the belief that he knows more than he really does; and he has a mysterious room which is only entered by himself and those whose fears and superstition he wishes to work upon. My aunt knows something of these mysteries-how much I don't know;-but I know nothing of them; I am kept entirely in ignorance; they

hand. "I will protect you with my life; and I will see the conjuror and his secret chamber befo

; and now that you know who my father is, I fear you will look cold upon me too, like the rest of the world, and that would kill me. Oh! Frederick, after all my drea

n my affections or feelings. I will sift this secret out to

r conversation, and on the renewal of their former loves, that they did not perceive the head that was projecting

d, as it walked quietly away, when the interview between th