ed Commander King; but with Lieut. Burbage, a frank, warm-hearted young man, his success was complete-a result however wholly due to the attraction of Quintana's sister, a young and charming Creole, the languishing light of whose dark eyes soon kindled a flame in the susceptible sailor's heart, which I feared all the waters of the ocean would fail to extinguish. That a sinister design of some sort lurked beneath the honied courtesies of both brother and sister, was, for several reasons, clear to me; and very glad I was when the requirements of the service removed the enamoured lieutenant, for a time at least, from such dangerous philandering with a Syren whose smiles and graces were, in my view, but sun-surfaced quicksands in which his professional prospects might, I feared, suffer wreck. We sailed out of the estuary of the Sierra Leone river on a splendid morning in summer; The varied picturesque scenery of the British land still dominated by the savage on the other; settlement on one hand, the low, dull line of the glittering sea around, in which thousands of the brightly-tinted nautilus and flying-fish were sailing and disporting themselves, all waving, sparkling, exhaling in the warm, odorous embrace of a cloudless tropical dawn-a gorgeous, exhilarating spectacle, to the beauty of which the dullest, most preoccupied brain could hardly remain insensible; and I was glad to see that even the pale, wo-begone phiz of Lt. Burbage, which had been fixed with melancholy gaze upon the palmy foliage which screened the English quarter of Freetown, where the charming Isabella still doubtless slumbered, till an envious jut while beneath its magic influence. I had hopes of land hid it from view, lightened up after a of him, and should have had more, but that our cruise for this spell was to be a brief one, Commander King having determined on returning to Sierra Leone in time to hear the decision of the Court of Mixed Commission-adjourned by mutual consent for one month- pronounced. THE proceedings before the mixed Commission Court of Sierra Leone, relative to the dashing exploit of the Curlew's boats, narrated in the last paper, were more than usually protracted and vexatious. The chief difficulty raised was the capture of the negroes on shore in the territory, it was pretended, of an independent African sovereign, for as to the brig the Felipe Segunda, there could be little doubt that she with her dusky cargo would be pronounced a lawful capture. It was well understood that Pasco, the real assassin of Capt. Horton, who, though severely wounded, had contrived to escape in the hurry and confusion of the fight, was the party in whose behalf the resident Portuguese Consul so strenuously exerted himself, although ostensibly that zealous functionary was solely actuated by a patriotic desire of vindicating the commercial rights of the subjects of Portugal, and the independence of its flag, trampled upon and outraged, according to him, by the vigor beyond the law, as settled by international treaty, displayed by the British officers. The death, sudden and unexpected, of the lieutenant governor, added greatly to Lieutenant-now Commander-King's dif We ran northward nearly as far as Cape Blanficulties, by enfeebling the action of the English co, peeped into the Rio Grande and the Gambia authorities till his successor should arrive-an and Senegal rivers, without success, and doubinterregnum, by the by, of frequent occurrence ling on our course, had just reached the mouth in days when Theodore Hook's sarcastic jest, of the most southerly of those rivers the Rio published in the weekly organ of the British pro- Grande, when we sighted a stout schooner, whose slavery party, that "Sierra Leone had always vocation was quite sufficiently indicated to practwo governors, one coming home dead and ano- tised eyes, by her long, low, sharply-moulded ther going out alive," was almost literally true. hull, and the excessive rake of her tapering From the earliest stage of this tedious and har- masts. She was far away to windward, and rassing affair, a person of the name of Quintana, merely noticing the cannon-challenge of the recently arrived from Cuba, of which he was Curlew by displaying the French ensign, or said to be a native, interested himself actively in "table-cloth," as English sailors were in the irthe matter on behalf of one Senor Cadalso, his reverent habit of styling the spotless banner of uncle, who, it was alleged, had advanced a large Bourbon France, and shaking out a reef or twosum, secured by a bottomry bond on the Felipe it was blowing freshly-she very speedily dropSegunda; and without any knowledge or suspi-ped us, and we had not the pleasure of seeing cion that she was to be employed in the illegal her again till we made Freetown, before which slave traffic. This pretended guilelessness was, no one doubted, all a flam; and if otherwise, could have no effect on the legal bearings of the case, and would have excited little notice but for the persevering efforts of the smooth-spoken Creole to cultivate the acquaintance of the officers of the Curlew, the chief claimants in the suit to which he was an adverse and interested party! He succeeded in his purpose partially only as regard we found her snugly anchored, with the gaudy colors of Spain trailing at her taffrail-a flag, that on boarding her, which Commander King did unhesitatingly, she was found to be more entitled to hoist, if her papers were believeable, than the "table-cloth" of France. Capt. Valdez, as he called himself, a sly, hang-dog looking rascal, was glib enough with his tongue, which if you could trust Don Enrique, (the schooner hailed it seemed from Cuba) was engaged in purely legitimate traffic, and the fifty or sixty bearded fellows composing her crew, innocent lamb-like creatures, to whom violence and cruelty were as abhorrent as cow beef to a pious Hindoo. All this was very like a whale," but as there was no legal pretence for seizing her, the commander of the Curlew affected to be quite satisfied with Capt. Valdez' story, and took civil leave of the worthy man. An incident, trifling in itself, which occurred a day or two afterwards, confirmed and pointed the suspicions which it was evident Commander King entertained of Cap. Valdez and his handsome craft. Renewed intercourse with Isabella Quintana, had kindled the love frenzy of Lieut. Burbage to a flame again; and he, of course, eagerly availed himself of every opportunity of visiting his charmer. He was thus engaged when Commander King despatched me with a message requiring his immediate presence. The outer door of Quintana's dwelling was ajar, and has tening through the passage to a back garden, where I thought I heard Burbage's voice, I ran slap aboard of Capt. Valdez and M. Quintana, who were, I saw, in earnest, low-toned conference. They were a good deal startled, and a swarthy flush passed over both their scowling faces. I apologized for the intrusion, and asked for Lieutenant Burbage. "He is in the front apartment with my sister," sourly rejoined Quintana. I sought him there at once, and we left the house together. "I am glad," said the commander of the Curlew, after I had privately informed him of the foregoing circumstance; I am glad that you said nothing about it to Burbage: there is reason to suspect that-but I shall probably have occasion to speak with you further in the matter in a few days. In the mean time you will keep a still tongue, and both eyes wide open." On the following morning the Court of Mixed Commission pronounced judgment, by which not only the Felipe Segunda, but the negroes taken on shore were decided to have been lawfully captured, or more properly speaking, rescued. Commander King immediately afterwards sent Lieutenant Burbage with a crew of twenty men, on board the condemned brig, to get her ready to sail for Dublin, the principal village of the largest of the Banana Islands, whither it had been determined that seventy of the liberated slaves should be conveyed. The Banana Islands-only one of which was at the time I write of inhabited, and that but very thinly-run out a considerable distance seaward, from Cape Sierra Leone, and form part of the settlement of that name. They are frequented by the European settlers at Sierra Leone at a certain period of the year, for their more temperate atmosphere, as well as for the sport which their hunting grounds afford; but their chief governmental use is as a depôt for invalid Africans. I was also drafted on board the Felipe Segunda, whose destination and by whom to be commanded was no sooner bruited about, than M. Quintana solicited a passage in her for himself and sister; they being desirous, I partly understood, to visit a relative, temporarily located for health's sake somewhere in one of the Islands. Lieutenant Burbage eagerly acceded, as far as he was concerned, to this very agreeable request: and Commander King subsequently consented with equal promptness to the arrangement. It was soon known, too, that we should have other company. The Marys, of Hull, a small English brig, James Hodgson, master, which had still a number of oddments in the shape of Birmingham hardware and Manchester soft goods undisposed of, cleared out for Dublin; and the Don Enrique made preparations for sailing with the first favorable breeze, but for a different destination-Ascension, it was reported, if I remember rightly. The wished-for breeze was not long waited for, and directly it was felt the Blue Peter flew at the mast heads of all three vessels. M. Quintana and his sister came on board; the Africans had been previously embarked, and the Felipe Segunda got smartly under weigh, quickly followed by the Don Enrique. The Marys, which had the reputation of being a very fast sailer, did not lift her anchor for some hours afterwards: the reason of this delay I have now to state. "Mr. Sutcliffe," said Commander King, when we were alone together, two or three hours previous to the departure of the Felipe Segunda; "I am about to intrust you with an important and rather difficult mission. I have reason to believe that Pasco, the brutal Portuguese assassin of Captain Horton is concealed somewhere in the Banana Islands; that he is in fact the uncle, the Senor Cadalso, of whom M. Quintana and his precious sister speak so affectionately." "You astonish me, sir!" "No wonder that I should. I have further reason to believe that Captain Valdez is in league with M. Quintana, and that one of their latest contrived schemes is to get repossession of the Felipe Segunda, not perhaps by absolute force, that would require a certain degree of pluck, and the attempt, if successful, would involve a sacrifice of life, which such gentry are not fond of incurring, but by some artful dodge in which the Senora's influence over Burbage will play a prominent part. If we can only catch the master and crew of the Don Enrique at such a pretty piece of piracy, the schooner will, of course, be ours; and better than that, Captain Valdez once in my power, I will so manage that he shall be glad to save his own neck, by guiding us to the hiding-hole of that ruffian Pasco. I have only to add, that I and fifty men shall embark in the Marys, and keep strictly out of sight till we may be wanted. Do you comprehend ?" "Yes, partially, but how--" "This paper," interrupted Lieutenant King, "which you will, of course, keep carefully concealed, will explain all that I have left in doubt. You will communicate with me through Hodgson, of the Marys, who is entirely in my confidence. Also understand," he added gravely, "that Lieut. Burbage is not kept in the dark in the matter, from any doubt of his honor or zeal in the King's service, but simply because he will better aid our success by playing unconsciously, therefore naturally, the part of love-blinded dupe, destined for him." I briefly expressed the gratitude I felt for the confidence reposed in me, and my determination to carry his instructions resolutely into effect, and was turning to leave the cabin, when he added with a kind of grave humour-"And bear in mind, Sutcliffe, the counsel of the Duke of Wellington to an officer intrusted with a confidential mission, that he should not only carefully guard his secret, but so act, speak, and look, that no one should suspect he had one."" The trip was a swift and pleasant one to every body, to Lieutenant Burbage a panoramic paradise of which each object-sun-light, star-fire, the varied shore, the silver sea, viewed in the lustre of his lady's eyes, assumed a beauty not their own. In fact, the poor fellow's wild talk as he paced the deck at night suggested serious doubts of his perfect sanity; and probably, if I go on transcribing his rhapsodies, the reader may come to a similar conclusion with regard to myself, I shall only therefore add, on this part of the subject, that I indistinctly understood the divine Isabella was to become Mrs. Burbage on our return to Sierra Leone, some necessary preliminaries having been first adjusted with the uncle Senor Cadalso. A few hours after we had brought up in Dublin Bay-I believe this name was suggested by its resemblance to the magnificent expanse of water which graces the Irish Metropolis-the Marys was signalled, and before nightfall had anchored at no great distance from us. Her merchantly, peaceable aspect was not in the slightest manner changed, and it required the positive assurance of Skipper Hodgson, with whom I had a quiet conference the next morning, to convince me that more than 50 valiant men of war were stowed away, ready as gunpowder, and considerably drier I could have sworn, in her hot, confined hold. The Don Enrique, he further informed me, had gone to the westward of the Island, and would be found lying off and on about Ricketts, a collection of Negro huts of that name, not far from which it was conjectured Senor Cadalso might be found. M. Quintana and his sister left the brig the instant the anchor was dropped, and never had the lady worn a sunnier smile than when she softly reminded the enraptured lieutenant that her uncle would expect to see him the earliest moment his professional duties permitted him to do 80. Those duties, as far as landing and locating the Negroes went, were concluded by noon on the morrow, and Lieutenant Burbage did not return till midnight. He appeared much and pleasureably excited; and after giving one or two routine orders, withdrew to his cabin, desiring me to follow. the island tomorrow for Cuba, in the Don Enrique." "In the Don Enrique !" I hastily blurted out; "isn't that odd ?" "Nonsense," he quickly replied: "Cadalso, though a rough-grained fellow as far as looks go, is, I have no doubt, a person of perfect respectability. It will be better," he added, finding I remained silent, "that you should take the brig round to the westward till you are abreast of Ricketts, where you can be easily rowed ashore, and the boat can remain on the beach to re-embark us all, as both Quintana and his sister intend sleeping on board. I shall have to be on shore early, and must therefore leave these little arrangements to you." I bowed acquiescence, and a few minutes afterwards we separated. Lieutenant Burbage left the vessel immediately after breakfast, taking with him six men on leave for the day, at, I understood, the request of our late passengers, and to dispose of their share of a gratuity which the Quintanas had sent the brig's company. This draft, with the six men I was directed to take on shore with me, and who were to remain with the boat till we were ready to reembark, would reduce the hands on board to eight. Truly a very pleasant game our sweetspoken friends were playing, and but that others could plot and countermine as well as they, quite a safe one too. I communicated as quickly as possible with Skipper Hodgson, and it was not long before the Marys was slipping away under easy sail to the westward. We came up with and ran her alongside in the shadow of a concealing headland, and received on board to the infinite amazement of the Felipe Segunda's scanty crew, some fifty odd of their old messmates. with Commander King at their head. Sail was again made, and before long we opened up the straggling village of Ricketts, and the Don Enrique lying snugly at anchor, about half a league from the shore. We brought up at no great distance from the audacious schooner, but the glasses which instantly swept the deck of the brig, could discern nothing alarming or suspicious there. The barge was manned at once, and after about a quarter of an hour's lusty pull, I leaped on shore, where a black fellow was in waiting to convey me to Senor Cadalso's residence, situate somewhere amongst the hills, at the base of which Ricketts is sparsely scattered. We soon reached it, and a miserable tumble-down place it was, though somewhat more pretentious than the mud huts of the liberated Africans. Quintana received me with much simulated cordiality, but the fellow was too shaky and ill at "I shall be obliged," he half-blushingly began, ease to play the part of hospitable host with even "if you will pay a visit to Senor Cadalso tomor- tolerable success. Burbage and his fiancée were row afternoon. The marriage contract is to be out walking; and Senor Cadalso was not for the signed then, and I wish you to be a witness. Be-present visible. Neither did I observe any festive sides there is to be some slight festivity-a dance preparation in progress. I, however, abstained and so on; and Isabella, with whom you are a from remark, accepted the refreshment proffered prime favorite, by the way, quite insists upon your presence." I answered that the lady's politeness was extremely gratifying, and that I should very readily accept of his and her invitation. "Thank you," rejoined Burbage; we have arrived here but just in time, for Cadalso, who has quite recovered his health, intends leaving me, drank a few glasses of wine, gossipped a little upon indifferent matters, and feeling at length exceedingly drowsy, apologized for my rudeness, and to Quintana's great relief, threw myself upon a bamboo apology for a couch, and soon dropped fast asleep. I slumbered much longer than I had intended, for when I again opened my peepers the moon and stars were out and shining brilliantly. I was just in the act of springing up when the sound of approaching voices, one that of Quintana's the other, a rasping one, I guessed Cadalso, alias Pasco's struck my ear, and induced me to resume my recumbent posture. "Hush! hush!" I presently heard Quintana hurriedly whisper; "speak lower for heaven's sake!" They talked in Spanish, by-the-by, which I comprehended well enough, though I could not speak it with remarkable elegance or precision. "Not I, indeed," was the surly rejoinder; "the mask may slip off how and as soon as it likes. Besides, the young cockerel yonder is fast asleep." "Are you quite sure it's all right with Captain Valdez?" asked Quintana, an arrant coward if there was ever one. “Quite sure! why yes; as sure as death! We have got our own again, there's no doubt about that. It's pretty nearly half an hour since the Felipe Segunda was boarded and carried by the Don Enrique's boats, though as the pistol shots told us not without a stoutish resistance. However, the signal rockets agreed upon between me and Valdez, soon showed that all was right." "Where is Burbage?" said Quintana after a few moments' silence. "With Isabella, to be sure!-with his friend Pasco's charming niece-where else? Ha! ha! burst out the truculent brute, with such a reckless ferocity, that I doubted if it could be at all worth while to feign sleep any longer; "the girl has managed the business rarely, and yet now, at the last moment, the pretty, perverse fool is whimpering and lamenting about it, and insisting, forsooth, that the thick-sculled Englishman she has so deliciously bamboozled shall be permitted to depart in a whole skin: yes, he shall !" "You swore that the lieutenant should suffer no personal harm," said Quintana, "besides the taunting villain, in whose power he believed himself to be, and upbraid the beguiling serpent that had lured bim to his ruin; and whose too late repentance had but revealed the utter blackness of the gulf in which he was plunged. "Uncle, uncle !" supplicated the weeping, terrified woman. as she threw herself between Burbage and Pasco's menacing pistol; "for the love of God harm him not! You have an oath in heaven to respect his life-his safety!" It would have been easy enough for me amid the furious din and scuffle to have sent a bullet through the heads of a couple of the scoundrels, but as I fully believed ample help was not far off, it would have been madness to precipitate matters till that help arrived. This much to the reader in excuse of my apparent quicsence, but really calculated inactivity. I chose rather, as soon as I could make myself heard, to implore Burbage to have patience,-to calm himself. "Patience! Calm myself!" he shouted, as he fixed his bloodshot glance on mine, as if doubtful that he heard aright; "Patience! Calm myself!" "The young man counsels wisely," said Pasco with a malignant sneer, but at the same time lowering his pistol; "patience is excellent when nothing else may be had. You are in my power, accursed fool, and so is the Felipe Segunda, and as many of her crew as have not already been thrown to the fishes. Ha! there is Captain Valdez' whistle. But a few minutes and all scores will be cleared. Off wench!-Is this a time for snivelling?" The hurried tramp of men swiftly approaching was heard without. Pasco sprang up with ferocious glee to the door, flung it open,-"Here Valdez, he cried with ferocious exultation; "here! -Hell and Thunder! who are these ?" "The messengers of justice, scoundrel!" shout-"ed Commander King, bursting in and seizing the terror-stricken miscreant. His eager crew followed and amidst a fierce uproar of shricks and curses, grappled and secured the whole knot of conspirators. The success of the counterplot was complete! "Swore," echoed the excited savage, "swore! But you too are a fool! Go and seek them. Valdez and his men cannot now be far off, and it is quite time the farce was over." Quintana left the room; and Pasco throwing himself carelessly upon a seat began gulping down the liquor on the table. He was quite aware, I felt convinced, that I was not asleep, but still I judged it best not to change my position, the more especially as my right hand, thrust carelessly as it were under my coat breast, securely gripped the stock of a double-barrelled pistol. A few anxious minutes slowly passed, and then a confused tumult of voices-Burbage's the loudest and fiercest-burst upon us. I jumped to my feet, and at the same moment the lieutenant swept into the room in a frenzy of rage and indignation. Isabella, preceding her brother and five or six grim-visaged ruffians following. Her face, a glance showed me, was pale as marble, and her fine eyes wet with tears. "Betrayed,-dishonored,-lost,-ruined !"shrieked Burbage as he caught sight of me; "and by this accursed murderer too!" It was well for Pasco that a table was between him and his furious assailant, or the lieutenant's sudden and deadly thrust would have required no second stroke. As it was, he received a slight wound only, and Burbage, pinioned in the grasp of three or four rascals, could only madly curse A few words will close this story. Isabella and her brother embarked unmolested for Cuba, chiefly, I believe, through the intercession of Lieutenant Burbage. Pasco was indicted for murder, and aiding and abetting piracy (the attack on the brig by the boats of the Don Enrique), but escaped the penalty to which he would certainly have been adjudged, by dying of brain fever in the hospital at Sierra Leone. Lieutenant Burbage, though for a time a sadder, became as certainly a wiser man than when he permitted himself to be hoodwinked by an artful Syren; who, however, we must not for the honor of womankind forget, was herself the dupe of a relative, upon whose bounty she had depended from earliest infancy. The Don Enrique was condemned and purchased into the service, and under another name became, with perhaps the exception of the celebrated Black Joke, the most efficient and successful cruiser on the African coast, till the apparition of armed steamers proclaimed to the dismayed slavemongers that, whether a little sooner or a little later, the end of their atrocious traffic was marked indelibly upon the dial of the future.—Eliza Cook's Journal. WINE. Oh! thou invisible spirit of wine !-f thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee-devil! Shakespeare. SOME eighteen months or two years ago, I was doing my duty to my country and myself on board Her Majesty's frigate the Astræa, by undergoing seventeen games of chess per diem with our first lieutenant, and filling up every pause with murmurs at the continuance of these piping times of peace.' We had been cruising some months in the Mediterranean, chiefly for the amusement of two dandy cousins of an honourable captain, whom we picked up at Malta, basking like two yellow, over-ripe gourds in the sunshine. We had touched at most of the ports of the Ionians, where cyprus may be had for paying for, and where faldettas are held by hands as fair as their coquettish folds are black and lustrous. At length, one beautiful evening, one of those twilights of chrysolite and gold, such as poets dream of, and the Levant alone can realize (having been for three preceding days, not "spell-bound," but "calm-bound among the clustering Cyclades") it was the pleasure of our honourable captain and his cousins to drop anchor in the Bay of (I have reasons of my own for not being more explicit, where after swearing the usual number of oaths at the quarantine officers, and the crews of the Venetian and Turkish traders, who make it a part of their religion to give offence to the bluejackets where offence can be given with impunity, I had the satisfaction to find myself, at about seven oclock P. M., seated at the mess of Her Majesty's gallant -th, doing as much justice to the roast beef of Old England as if we had not been within a day's sail of the Island of the Minotaur. "Are you a punch drinker?" inquired my neighbour, Captain Wargrave, with whom as a schoolfellow of my elder brother's, I had quickly made acquaintance. I "If I may venture to own it, no!" said I; have swallowed too much punch on compulsion in the course of my life." "I judged as much from your looks," replied Wargrave, who had promised to see me on board the frigate. "If you want to get away from these noisy fellows, we can easily slip off while Lord Thomas and his operations engage their attention." And, in compliance with the hint, I soon found myself sauntering with him, arm in arm, on the bastions of We had an hour before us; for the captain's gig was not ordered till eleven; and in order to keep an eye at once on the frigate and the shore, we sat down on an abutment of the parapet to gossip away the time. "There seem to be hard-going fellows in your mess," said I to Wargrave, as he sat beside me, with his arms folded over his breast. ": "Thornton, I understand, carries off his two bottles a day, like a Trojan; and the fat major, who sat opposite to me, made such play with the champagne, as caused me to blush for my squeamishness. For my own part, I should be well content never to exceed a couple of glasses of good claret. Wine affects me in a different way from most men. The more I drink, the more my spirits are depressed. While others get roaring drunk, I sit moping and des pairing; and the next day my head aches like an artilleryman's." "You are fortunate," said Wargrave drily. "Fortunate ?" cried I. "I wish I could ap preciate my own luck!-I am voted the sulkiest dog unhanged, whenever it is my cue to be jolly; and after proving a wet blanket to a merry party over-night, am ready to shoot myself with the headache and blue devils next morning. If there be a fellow I really envy, it is such a one as Thornton, who is ready to chime in with the chorus of the thirty-sixth stanza of "Nancy Dawson" between his two last bottles, and keeps his head and legs an hour after all the rest of the party have lost their's under the table. There is something fresh and picturesque iu the mere sound of the vine-the grape-the cup-the bowl!' It always appears to me that Bacchus is the universal divinity, and that I alone am exempted from the worship." Wargrave replied by a vague, unmeaning laugh, which led me to conclude that my eloquence was lost on him, Yet I continued: "Do you know that, in spite of the prevalence of the Bacchanalian idolatry, I think we hardly give honour due to the influence of wine. It has ever been the mania of mankind to ascribe the actions of their fellow-creatures to all motives but the true; but if they saw clearly, and spoke honestly, they would admit that more heroes have been made by the bottle than the sword." 44 Have you any personal meaning in this tirade?" suddenly interrupted my companion, in a voice whose concentration was deadly. "Personal meaning ?" I reiterated. "Of what nature?" And for a moment I could not but fancy that poor Wargrave had taken a deeper share in the Chateau Margoux of the fat major than I had is sure to take fire on the most distant imputation been aware of. A man rather touched by wine of drunkenness. "I can scarcely imagine, sir," he continued, in a voice, however, that savoured of anything rather the misfortunes of my life should address me on than inebriety, "that any man acquainted with such a subject!" "Be satisfied then that your indignation is doubtful how far I ought to resent the ungraciousgroundless, and most unreasonable," said I, still ness of his demeanour; "for, on the word of a gentleman, till this day I, never heard your name. Your avowal of intimacy with my brother, and something in the frankness of your manner that reminded me of his, added to the hilarity of an unexpected reunion with so many of my country. men, has perhaps induced too sudden a familiarity in my demeanour; but, in wishing you good night, Captain Wargrave, and a fairer interpretation of the next sailor who opens his heart to you at sight, allow me to assure you, that not a shadow of offence was intended in the rhapsody you are pleased to resent," 66 'Forgive me!" exclaimed Wargrave, extending his hands nay almost his arms, towards me. "It would have afforded only a crowning incident to my miserable history, had my jealous soreness on one fatal subject produced a serious misunderstanding with the brother of one of my dearest and earliest friends." While I frankly accepted his apologies and of |