convinced that she knew where her husband was, and was secure of his safety.

Some one else knew too. That person was Thomas Reynolds.

According to his own account of the matter, the informer was brought, on the Wednesday after the seizure of his victims, to the house where Lord Edward was in hiding, had an interview with him there, and returned by appointment on the following day, when the fugitive committed to the traitor's care an address to the country, encouraging the people to disregard the blow which had been struck, to fill up without delay the vacancies caused by it in the Committee, and to rely upon their leader being found at his post at the time of need. After which Lord Edward, who was on the point of shifting his place of concealment, left the house in disguise.

The question which naturally arises on reading Mr. Reynolds's story, granted it was true, is as to the reason that the victim, affording, as he had done, every facility to his enemies, should not have been, there and then, on the day he had appointed the informer to meet him, delivered into the hands of his pursuers? Was it, as has been suggested, that the authorities were still desirous, at the eleventh hour, of giving him an opportunity of escape? or—a more likely explanation, taking into account Reynolds's former anxiety to keep Lord Edward away from the meeting at Bond's house-was it that the traitor himself still held his hand, and hesitated to strike at the

person of his chief? To whatever cause his conduct was due, the result was the same, and Lord Edward continued at liberty.

Notwithstanding the advice given by Lady Louisa that Pamela should remain at Leinster House-Conolly, always a cautious man, having forbidden his wife to receive her at her own-she intimated to Lady Sarah, on the day of Reynolds's second interview with Lord Edward, that her present place of residence had grown detestable to her, and announced her intention of hiring a quiet house of her own.

"She bid me," adds Lady Sarah, "tell my sister Leinster to be quite, quite easy. To write would be folly in her, and indeed in us, for all letters are opened now; so I only wrote so I only wrote to Mrs. Johnston, and made a child direct it, desiring her to send for Mr. Ogilvie, and show it him. We know nothing yet of how my poor sister will take it-I fear very badly."

Pamela's determination to change her quarters was explicable enough. It may well have occurred both to her and to Lord Edward that communication would be easier and safer in an unpretentious lodging than should she continue to tenant the Duke's great house. At any rate, she carried out her intention without delay. On the very day when she had declared it the one on which Lord Edward's hiding-place was to be changed for another-he visited her at her fresh abode, in Denzille Street; and the confidential maid who, with Tony, had accompanied her thither,

was startled, on entering the room that night, to find her master, whom she had imagined to be in France, sitting with his wife in the firelight, both, as she believed, in tears; while little Pamela, not yet two years old, had been brought down from her bed in order that her father might take leave of her.

It was the last meeting of husband and wife for over a month-their last meeting but one, so far as any record remains, on this side of the grave.

Other matters besides purely personal ones must have been discussed that night; for on the following day-the statement is made on the authority of Mr. Reynolds's son-the informer had an interview with Pamela, when she handed over to him on Lord Edward's behalf certain sums due to the funds of the Society, Reynolds being still an accredited member of it. She also gave him a ring to serve as a guarantee of the authenticity of any communication he might have occasion to send to her; and finally complained to him of her own lack of available money, in consequence of which the compassionate Reynolds sent her fifty pounds, having placed the like sum at Lord Edward's disposal on the previous day.

The statement may be taken for what it is worth. It is a singular coincidence, and one which does not tend to corroborate it, that in Lady Sarah Napier's diary there is an entry the very day before that of Pamela's interview with the informer, to the effect that she had sent her nephew's wife the sum of twenty pounds, in case she might find herself in