the man of business perceived an advantage
here, and determined to hold it.

Miss Pross and he divided the night into two
watches, and observed him at intervals from the
adjoining room. He paced up and down for a
long time before he lay down; but, when he did
finally lay himself down, he fell asleep. In the
morning, he was up betimes, and went straight
to his bench and to work.

On this second day, Mr. Lorry saluted him
cheerfully by his name, and spoke to him on topics
that had been of late familiar to them. He returned
no reply, but it was evident that he heard
what was said, and that he thought about it,
however confusedly. This encouraged Mr.
Lorry to have Miss Pross in with her work,
several times during the day; at those times,
they quietly spoke of Lucie, and of her father
then present, precisely in the usual manner, and
as if there were nothing amiss. This was done
without any demonstrative accompaniment, not
long enough, or often enough, to harass him; and
it lightened Mr. Lorry's friendly heart to believe
that he looked up oftener, and that he appeared
to be stirred by some perception of inconsistencies
surrounding him.

When it fell dark again, Mr. Lorry asked
him as before:

"Dear Doctor, will you go out?"

As before, he repeated, "Out?"

"Yes; for a walk with me. Why not?"

This time, Mr. Lorry feigned to go out when
he could extract no answer from him, and, after
remaining absent for an hour, returned. In the
mean while, the Doctor had removed to the
seat in the window, and had sat there looking
down at the plane-tree; but, on Mr. Lorry's
return, he slipped away to his bench.

The time went very slowly on, and Mr. Lorry's
hope darkened, and his heart grew heavier again,
and grew yet heavier and heavier every day.
The third day came and went, the fourth, the
fifth. Five days, six days, seven days, eight
days, nine days.

With a hope ever darkening, and with a heart
always growing heavier and heavier, Mr. Lorry
passed through this anxious time. The secret
was well kept, and Lucie was unconscious and
happy; but, he could not fail to observe that
the shoemaker, whose hand had been a little out
at first, was growing dreadfully skilful, and that
he had never been so intent on his work, and
that his hands had never been so nimble and
expert, as in the dusk of the ninth evening.

OUR EYE-WITNESS AT WOOLWICH.

OUR Eye-witness has spent the greater part
of two days in a careful examination of the
Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich.

Before proceeding to enter into any description
of what he saw on the occasion of this visit,
the writer wishes to record here his sense of the
obligation he is under to Colonel Tulloh, and
the other officers and gentlemen engaged in the
superintendence of the different departments,
for their readiness to facilitate his examination
of the place, and to afford him every assistance
which lay in their power towards forming a
correct idea of the resources of this splendid
arsenal.

The great war establishment which covers
upwards of two hundred and sixty acres of
ground, is divided into three departments, which
are arranged in the following order:

The Royal Gun Factories, under Colonel
Eardley Wilmot;

The Royal Carriage Department, under Colonel
Tulloh; and

The Royal Laboratory Department, under
Captain Boxer.

In the Royal Gun Factories a large portion
of the brass and iron guns used in our army and
navy are cast, bored, and finished.

In the Royal Carriage Department are made
the carriages on which these guns are mounted,
and by means of which they, and the ammunition
they require, are conveyed from place to
place.

While the Royal Laboratory Department is
for the construction of the heavy shot for
cannon, of shells, bullets, cartridges, percussion-
caps, and many other implements of death and
mutilation.

The order in which the Eye-witness visited
the different wonders of this great workshop of
destruction is that in which he now proposes to
treat of them, and as the introduction with which
he entered the Arsenal gates was to Colonel
Tulloh, it was naturally the department under
the especial care of that officer which the Eye-
witness examined before any other.

It happened that the day on which the Eye-
witness first visited Woolwich was Friday, and
that on that day, at one o'clock in the afternoon,
the men employed on the works are paid their
weekly wages. The amount earned by each
workman during the week is calculated beforehand,
and placed ready for him in a numbered
compartment of a tray, before which each one
passes in a regular succession. As the workman
reaches the paying-place he hands in his ticket,
on which his number is inscribed. Instantly
the money in the compartment bearing the corresponding
number is handed to him, and he
passes on, the ticket which he has just given up
being considered as a receipt. This is the only
way in which the thing could be done. The
number of men employed in the Arsenal reaches
to something like twelve thousand, and as they
work by the piece as well as by time, there are
hardly two in the place who receive the same sum.
It would be, therefore, impossible to calculate
how much is due to each at the time of payment.
The affair is settled, according to the arrangement
just described, in a few minutes.

Through acres of timber, ranged in stacks,
your Eye-witness was conveyed to the great
saw-mills of the Carriage Department, where the
logs from which the gun-carriages are made are
handed over to a mass of machinery, by which
they are hewn into shape with an almost inconceivable
rapidity and precision. The timber is
moved along on iron tramways, which intersect