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With a furious oath he stooped and caught up the glove at his feet; then snatched out of my hand the sword that I offered him

"Push back the settle, you; it is in the way!" he cried to Diccon; then to me, in a voice thick with passion: "Coovernors; this time let Death thron the warder!"

"He throws it," said theand a sudden burst of excited voices The next instant the door was burst open, and a most villainous, fiery-red face thrust itself inside "A ship!" bawled the apparition, and vanished The clamor increased; voices cried for captain andout the good news, coo with them at once

"Until this interruption is over, sir," I said sternly, bowing to hier"

"Be sure, sir, that to o heavily," he answered as sternly

We reached the poop to find the fog that had lain about us thick and white suddenly lifted, and the hot sunshine streaue away, lay a low, endless coast of sand, as dazzling white as the surf that broke upon it, and running back to a reen

"That is Florida," said Paradise at h between us It was Kirby's luck that the fog lifted Yonder tall ship hath a less fortunate star"

She lay between us and the white beach, evidently in shoal and dangerous waters She too had encountered a hurricane, and had not coone, and her bowsprit was broken She lay heavily, her ports but a few inches above the water Though we did not know it then, hten her Crippled as she hat sail she could set, she was beating back to open sea fro

"Where she e can follow!" sang out a voice froive no quarter this tiriood to some on either ship

"Lord help all poor souls this day!" ejaculated the minister in undertones; then aloud and more hopefully, "She hath not the look of a don; lish merchantman," said Paradise "Look at her colors A Coo of servants, gentlemen out at elbows, felons, children for apprentices, traders, French vignerons, glasswork Italians, returning Councilors and heads of hundreds, with their wives and daughters, e once myself, captain"