Brotherly Love.

in your words which thrills my soul , and draws me to you . I would have vengeance , deep , deadly vengeance . " Here a gleam of the dying sun broke in and filled the edifice with a purple light . "And you will gratify your desire , " exclaimed the strange being , gazing * on Simon . " I read it in your countenance . " "I trust your words are prophetic , for a demon is in my breast—it isrevenge . '

'And will you murder him in cold blood—send to a premature grave the being whose hand you clasped in boyhood ? Will you cruelly inhumanly , fiendly murder him ?" « wi Sfcajr ' ° ne word > " said Simoii . as his companion turned to depart . V \ ho are you ? Are you he whom they name the Maniac of the Mount , the self-avowed homicide ?"

"He comes , " exclaimed the man , "in the grey of the dawn he comes ; he comes m the twilight hour , he is with me by the margin of the stream , he is by my couch with cold and dewy hands , he mingles with moonlight , he is floating mid the stars , he rises from the fragrant shrub , he is everywhere , with the same look he wore in earlyouthhe beckon "

y ; s me now . With these words , he strode from the church , and Simon could hear Mm uttering the words , " he comes in the grey of the dawn , he comes in the twilight hour , he is with me by the margin of the stream , & c , " as he followed him through the cemetery that encircled the edifice . This strange being was at once an object of terror , nitv . and resnect

tothe inhabitants of the neighbourhood . Por some years previously he had fixed his abode on the peak of a very high hill in the vicinity , which , from its superior altitude , was designated the Mount . Here he had constructed a rude edifice , to the interior of which no human being had yet been admitted , in which he dwelt the year round . He was occasionally overheard by some casual wanderer " near his abode + 0

, . express himself in a strain similar to that we have already recorded , heightened , perhaps , by an apostrophe to some invisible being , whom it appeared from his incoherent observations he had murdered ; and this circumstance procured for him the sobriquet of the Maniac of the Mount . Some , indeed , regarded Mm as a homicidewho was endeavouring by isolation

, and self-imposed mortification , to expiate the offence he had committed . But it' was remarked , that it was only periodically that he was affected with fits of lunacy . On other occasions he was remarkable for nothing but a melancholy expression of countenance , and , if any object of

distress—such as a wandering beggar , or some tired pedestrian—approached his abode , he exhibited benevolence in ministering to their necessities ; for though he invited none to enter his dwelling , he would bring them forth fruits , and if they were mendicants , he would relieve them with money . His food was of the simplest description , and supplied by the inhabitants of the town , who would leave it outside Ms dwelling without

seeking an interview with the singular object of their bounty , being uncertain as to the mood of mind in which they might find him . But this liberality was amply recompensed , for during a period of