Part 21 (1/2)

'Those rascals,' Mr Double informed us, 'are not in the captain's confidence they're tidy seah, and they submit to the captain's laws on board and have their liberty ashore'

We inquired what the difference was between their privileges and his

'Why,' said he, 'if they're so much as accused of a disobedient act, off they 're scurried, and lose fair wages and a kind captain And let any man Jack of 'eainst a wall and gets it; all he ets Once you fix the confidence of your superior, you're waterproof'

We held our peace, but we could have spoken

Mr Double had nohe did not relish the performance, he could enjoy a spell in the open air, he said, and this he speedily decided to do Had we not been bound in honour to remain for him to fetch us, we also should have retired from a representation of which we understood only the word ja It was tireso for the return of this word We felt sos ly, we professed, without concealment, to despise the whole perfor of the Ees

'Hem!' he went critically; 'it's all very well for a Gerlishhter near us Presently an English gentleman accosted us

'Mr Villiers, I believe?' He bowed at ain, with excuses, talked of the Play, and telegraphed to a lady sitting in a box fronting us I saw that she wrote on a slip of paper; she beckoned; the gentleman quitted us, and soon after placed a twisted note in my hand It ran:

'Miss Goodhose Christian name is Clara) wishes very much to kno it has fared with Mr Harry Richmond since he left Venice'

I pushed past a nu, on my way to her box, to recollect her vividly, but I could barely recollect her at all, until I had sat beside her five minutes Colonel Goodas asleep in a corner of the box Awakened by the sound of his native tongue, he recognized me immediately

'On your way to your father?' he said, as he shook uess that in Germany

'Do you knohere he is, sir?' I asked

'We saw him,' replied the colonel; 'as it, Clara? A week or ten days ago'

'Yes,' said Miss Goodwin; 'ill talk of that by-and-by' And she overfloith comments on my personal appearance, and plied me with questions, but would answer none of mine

I fetched Temple into the box to introduce hientleman who had accosted me below

'You understand Ger that we knew only the word ja, for it made our presence in Gererous word of all,' said Colonel Goodwin, and begged us always to repeat after it the negative nein for an antidote

'You have both seen my father?' I whispered to Miss Goodwin; 'both? We have been separated Do tell e-they speak such nonsense How did you reotten the gondolas and the striped posts, and stali and the other word; but soon after ere separated, and I haven't seen him since'

She touched her father's ar up erect

'In Gerravely and leaned softly on my arm while we marched out of the theatre to her hotel--I in such a state of happiness underlying bewilder expectation that I should have cried out loud had not pride in my partner restrained me At her tea-table I narrated the whole ofin Venice, hurrying it over as quick as I could, with the breathless termination, 'And now?'