s bowed their white flowers in the
light of the waning moon, and we fell again into each other's arms.

"After a time he said, 'My only friend, I have brought home with me a
little helpless boy; he is named Henry, after you, and will take the
place of the lost little one lying here. Whoever of us survives shall
inherit that estate. Come with me and look at him!'

"He led me to the other mound, and there, beside the tree, a beautiful
child lay calmly sleeping, wrapped in a sailor's jacket, with his curls
escaping from a straw hat, and the head resting on one arm on the grave
beneath him.

"'Be good to him,' Paul went on, 'for the sake of those we have lost
ourselves! His mother's name was Rosalie.'

"He stooped down as he said this, and, raising the boy in his arms, he
kissed him passionately, and then put him gently in mine. 'Let him kneel
sometimes at this grave, my friend, and pray for me.'

"In another moment Paul Darcantel had gone. The little fellow partly
woke, and put his arms affectionately around my neck, and whispered
'Mamma! mamma!' That dashing, brave young fellow ahead there was once
that boy.

"Well, I took the child to the house, where my good mother and sisters
went wild over him, and there he passed a happy boyhood. Years went by,
and he grew apace, the pride and delight of us all; and as he evinced
the greatest fondness for me and the accounts I gave him of my life at
sea, I had him appointed a reefer in the navy. Since that he has seen a
great deal of service; been distinguished in action; and, on shipboard
as well as on shore, liked and respected by all who know him.

"In the mean while his father went away, nobody knew whither, for years
and years. He wrote to me, however, and to his son, from all parts of
the world; and when I made the tour in Europe I spoke about, Darcantel
was my companion. But while there he passed a retired life, never went
into society, but visited every hospital in every sea-port from the
Mediterranean to Aberdeen in Scotland; for he is not only a surgeon, as
I have reason to know, of wonderful skill, but a thorough-bred seaman
too; and when he has been with me on board ship there is no one whose
opinion of the weather, or other nautical matters, do I place greater
reliance on. I could tell you of half a dozen times when his advice to
me has saved serious damage. And during all these years Darcantel's
estates, under the careful supervision of my eldest brother, have be