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The night before Tyburn Will had stolen from the white quarters, and had met a couple of seamen from the Te to get

into trouble for breaking the lahich forbade the harboring of sailors

ashore The three had taken in full lading of kill-devil rum, and Tyburn

Will, too drunk to run any farther, had been caught by Hide near Princess

Creek, three hours agone What were the o to the court-house whipping post, or should Hide save the trouble of

taking him there? In either case, thirty-nine lashes well laid on-The round with the ferrule of his cane, and finally proposed to the astonished overseer that the rascal be let off with a warning "'Tis too fair a day to poison with ugly sights

and sounds," he said, whireat harm to be lenient, for once, Saunderson, and I a , and Haward entered the house The roo He walked the length of

the shelves, took out a volu, and

upon the binding of others laid an affectionate, lingering touch "I have

had a fever, my friends," he announced to the books, "but I am about to

find myself happily restored to reason and serenity; in short, to health"

Some hours later he raised his eyes froreat while, covered them for a moment with his hand, then

rose, and, with the air of a sleepwalker, went out of the lit rooht There was no moon, but the stars were e of the landing, and the

river, sighing in its sleep, lay clear below hih he stood between two firmaments He descended the steps, and

dreard hiainst the wet