inaptitude for business, impelled also by a deep sense of duty, and ever bearing near his heart the interest of the Government by which he was employed, he had appointed clerks worthy, as he conceived, of the various trusts he reposed in them, as also a general superintendent, his confidential secretary, to inspect their accounts.
Meanwhile, the country being reduced to order and to a tranquillity more stable than before the breaking out of the rebellion, Mrs. De Brooke awaited the commands of her husband to resume, as formerly, her station at the Fort. Having, as we have seen, taken refuge on the coast of Wales, rather than advance into the interior and more agreeable part of the country, she had preferred establishing herself in the small town of Milford Haven, its vicinity to the coast affording her a speedy communication of news relative to the progress of the rebellion. This event terminating sooner than she had expected, after much painful solicitude the wished-for summons of the General reached her.
Speedily wafted across the seas, she was safely landed on shores exhibiting anew scenes delightful and congenial to her remembrance, but for the thought of the tumult and alarm that had suc-
