queline leave the castle ?" " She went to the convent for confession ; and there was where she died : but it is a long way." The heart of the father yearned towards his sons, as he gazed from one to the other, and compared their fea-tures with the miniature that their infant charms had set in his memory, but with the sweet certainty that he had at last found the objects of his search, was born the thrilling hope that their mother yet lived. Then a struggling crowd of thoughts, emotions, and purposes rushed through his mind, and foremost among them all was the idea that Eleanor might be divorced, Rosamond's wrongs repaired, the diadem of England placed upon her brow, and his de-clining years solaced by the affection of these duteous sons who should take the plac%s and titles of the rebel princes. Yet even in the midst of the tumult of his feelings his wonted self-control taught him not to risk the safety of his new-found joys by any premature discovery. Rising from the table with an air of solemnity, he pronounced his parting blessing in a tone of the deepest fervor, and hurriedly took his leave. Retaining his disguise, but occupied with thoughts that ill-became a palmer's brain, he bent his steps towards the nunnery of Godstowe. Near the close of the second day he entered the confines of Oxfordshire, and found himself, little to his satisfaction, in the vicinity of a country fair, with its attendant junketing, masquerade, and feats of jugglery and legerdemain. To avoid the crowd, he determined to seek lodging in a booth that stood a little apart from the main •encampment. The weary monarch had stretched himself to rest, when the sound of uproarious mirth disturbed his slumbers, and a Welsh bal-lad-singer, whom he remembered to have seen in the ser-vice of Giraldus Cambrensis, the tutor of John, commenced in a voice of considerable power and pathos, the following song :— When as King Henry ruled this land, The second of that name, Besides the queen, he dearly loved A fair and comely dame ; HEROINES OF THE CRUSADES.