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but honest woman, took charge of all the papers, money, and jewellery, found.

"I feel that you will do all that is necessary," said Sylvester; "and be assured that you will not go unrewarded."

"I do not think of reward, sir," replied the good woman. "I will, sir, do all that is necessary: for I loved the young lady as if she had been my own child, and her mother I regarded as a sister."

"Those bracelets—" said Sylvester.

"I have heard of them, sir: you wish them to remain on?"

"I do."

"They shall not be removed. Be assured that I will pay every possible attention.

"I feel assured that you will," said Sylvester, who left the house with a heavy heart, to explain at home all that had occurred.

Mr. Scholefield was not much surprised: he knew when he left the house that poor Julia could not live more than a few hours; and although he imagined that her mother might linger some days, he felt sure that her daughter's death would break her heart; but Mrs. Scholefield—who of course did not view it as he did, professionally—took the deepest possible interest in the case, and went with Sylvester in the morning to superintend the arrangements; and that day week poor Julia and her mother were—followed by Sylvester—borne to the grave.

Having related in the preceding chapter the only incident of importance connected with this history, which occurred during Sylvester's residence with Mr. Scholefield, it will be necessary now to proceed from that period at which he passed with eclat, both the college and the hall.

Finding a strict adherence to that regimen, to which he had been accustomed while under Mr. Scholefield's roof, now most inconvenient, he gradually reacquired the habit of living as those whom he visited lived; and, as he did so, his somnambulism—of which he was still unconscious—returned.

It did not, however, develope itself strongly at first: but, by degrees, he could eat, drink, walk, converse, read, write, compose, and translate, with as much facility while asleep as he could when awake. It frequently puzzled him, when, on rising in the morning, he found a mass of matter on the table which had been composed by him in the course of the night: indeed, he had not left the house of Mr. Scholefield more than a month, when he discovered in one of his drawers an elaborate Treatise on the Functions of the Heart, of the composition of which