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To win the love of this much-praisedcorsair felt that he orthy of it; for on the high seas, when a superior foe was to be opposed by force and stratagem, when a ship was to be boarded and death spread over her deck, he had proved hiressed more easily than he expected His father would rejoice, and his heart exulted at the thought of encountering a serious peril for the girl he loved His whole existence was a venture of life, and, had he had ten to lose, they would not have been too dear a price to hioddess of Victory, held the wreath aloft, and loud applause hailed her, Hanno was thinking of the treasures which he had garnered since his father had allowed him a share of the booty, and of the future

When he had accuive up piracy, like Abus, and carry on his own ships wood and slaves froypt, and textiles from Tennis, arms and other manufactured articles from Alexandria to the Pontine cities In this way Ledscha's father had become a rich man, and he would also, not for his own sake--he needed little--but to make life sweet for his wife, surround her with splendour and luxury, and adorn her beautiful person with costly jewels Many a stolen orna place that even his brother Labaja did not know

At last the shouts died away, and as the stopping of the clattering wheel wakes the miller, so the stillness on the shore roused Hanno from his drea that she did not even hear his low call? His father and Labaja had undoubtedly left his grand for hiht; the old pirate's shrill whistle reached his ear from the Owl's Nest, and he was accusto Ledscha on the shoulder, he whispered that he must return to the island at once His father would be rejoiced if she ith him

"To-morrow," she answered in a tone of resolute denial Then, renals she had pro swiftly past hih of theon the shore, and, as she had learned during the gahtly as a bird into the thicket at the water's edge, which concealed her from every eye