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At the distance of half a mile from the college, on a sort of headland overhanging the town, was another grand edifice with walls and towers and battlements, all half concealed in a grove of venerable trees. This was the castle, and was the residence of the governor of the island.

Grimkie and John found many pretty streets in the upper town, some of which were bordered by very nice-looking houses, with yards and gardens full of autumnal flowers before and at the sides of them. Among these were several with the little card APARTMENTS FURNISHED in the windows. The boys went in to look at some of these, and at length found rooms which they thought would please Mrs. Morelle. When they went home and made their report of what they had seen, Mrs. Morelle said that as soon as the weather cleared up she would go and see the rooms which they had chosen.

This she did the next morning. She found the rooms very comfortable and pleasant, and she at once engaged them for a week.

During the week the party made a great many excursions, sometimes on foot and sometimes in a carriage, to different parts of the island. John was very desirous that his mother should gc down one of the long "stair streets," as he called them, which led to the lower town. Mrs. Mo

relle said that she had no objection to going down, but that she would not like so well the coming up again. John replied that there was no difficulty in coming up. He could run up, he said, two steps at a time. Finally, however, it was arranged that the carriage, which was to take them on an excursion, should go round by the road which led down through the glen, and meet the party in the market, where several of the flights of stairs terminated.

So they all went down the longest and most irregular of the stairs that the boys could find. The descent was not continuous, but was divided into a number of different flights, with many turnings and landings between them, where the party could stop to rest and to look off over the sea, which at all these places came into full view. At these landings, and at other points along the descent, were alleyways branching off, and gateways in the high walls, entering into houses, and many people were met going up and down.

When at length the party reached the bottom of the steps they came into a level street, with shops upon each side of it, and a little beyond to a large market-place, where they found the carriage waiting for them. They got into the carriage and rode to the quay, and so along the quay to the southward till they were out of the

town. Here the road ascended a long hill, which at this point formed a lofty promcntory projectThe summit of the hill was

ing into the sea. crowned with the ramparts and walls and grasscovered slopes of an immense fortification. The road passed along under the walls, on the side toward the sea, and commanded a most magnificent view. In one direction was the town, with its long quays and piers-the basins enclosed by them filled with shipping-and its ranges of houses rising street above street to the top of the declivity. A little way in the offing was the island of Sark, with its steep sides and green pastures extending along the summit. Farther away toward the horizon was the coast of France, and to the southward the island of Jersey; while scattered over the intervening waters ships and steamers and fishing-boats, were seen slowly gliding to and fro. Directly beneath them, and between them and the town, were a number of small sail-boats, which looked, at the height from which they saw them, like so many title inganta creeping over the surface of the water.

CHAPTER XXIII.

CONCLUSION.

Ar length when the week had expired Mrs. Morelle said that the time had arrived for them to continue their voyage by taking the steamer for England. The largest and best boat went on Wednesday, and Mrs. Morelle was accordingly desirous of going on that day. On Tuesday, however, it was stormy, and as the evening came on the wind and rain increased. Mrs. Morelle said, however, that in accordance with their new rule of going when the boat goes, they would proceed with their preparations notwithstanding the weather. So they packed the trunks and paid their bill and made everything ready.

It cleared up in the night, and the next morning, when the carriage came to the door, the sun was shining bright, and the air was calm. The carriage took the party to the pier, and there they had to wait half an hour for the boat to. come from Jersey.

At length the signals from a fort on the hill gave notice that the boat was in sight. A short

time afterward she came into the harbor, and the Guernsey passengers all went on board. The party remained on deck for some time, in order to look at the shores of Guernsey and of Sark as the steamer passed along between them in commencing her voyage. The morning sun shone bright upon the cliffs and headlands, and brought out beautifully into view the villas and churches and farm houses and hamlets which lay basking on the hillsides or nestled in the valleys and glens. Now and then the steamer passed by groups of ragged rocks which rose sometimes to a stupendous height above the water-sea-birds in great flocks sailing slowly through the air about their sides and summits, and the foam of the sea dashing against them below.

As they sailed along in this way Grimkie looked very wistfully at the shores of the island of Sark, which were very bold and picturesque.

"I wish," said he, at length, speaking in a very earnest manner. "I wish we could have gone to Sark.”

"How could we have got there ?" asked Mrs. Morelle.

"In a sail-boat, Auntie,” replied Grimkie. "We could have taken a sail-boat in St. Peter's Port and run across in two hours, with a fair wind. In the summer there is a steamboat, but

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