Mr. Bloundel sustained only a trifling loss by the fire.  Another house was erected on the site of the old habitation, where he carried on his business as respectably and as profitably as before, until, in the course of nature, he was gathered to his fathers, and succeeded by his son Stephen, leaving an unblemished character behind him as a legacy to his family.  Nor was it his only legacy, in a worldly sense, for his time had not been misspent, and he had well-husbanded his money.  All his family turned out well, and were successful in the world.  Stephen rose to the highest civic dignities, and the younger obtained great distinction.  Their daughter Christiana became Lady Argentine, being wedded to the eldest son of the baron and baroness.

Mike Macascree, the piper, and Bell, found a happy asylum with the same noble family.

As to Lord and Lady Argentine, theirs was a life of uninterrupted happiness.  Devotedly attached to her lord, the Lady Isabella seemed only to live for him, and he well repaid her affection.  By sedulously cultivating his talents and powers, which were considerable, he was enabled to reflect credit upon the high rank to which it had pleased a grateful sovereign to elevate him.  He lived to see the new cathedral completed by Sir Christopher Wren, and often visited it with feelings of admiration, but never with the same sentiments of veneration and awe that he had experienced when, in times long gone by, he had repaired to OLD SAINT PAUL’S.

THE END.