e excellent Mr Gournay and his lady, the young couple
repaired to Nottingham.

The loss of the "Nottingham Galley," however, caused Jack to be more
coolly received by his friends than he had anticipated. In vain he
tried to explain to them that they should find fault with the elements
more than with him for the ill-success of their speculation. He
undertook, if it was their wish, to command another galley, and to
embark all his property in the enterprise. To this, however, none of
them would agree. Yet there were two of his friends who received him in
a different manner to the rest--his sister Polly and his sister-in-law
Alethea. Prosperity had not improved his brother Jasper, and he
appeared to be more bitter than any of the family who suffered from the
wreck of the galley. A reconciliation was however at last brought about
by cousin Nat and Polly. Jack had been dining at the house of his
sister and her husband, where he met Jasper, to whose house in
Fletcher-gate he agreed to walk in the evening. On their way, some
remarks made by Dr Jasper irritated John Deane, as he considered them
unfair and unjust, and angry words were heard by some of the passers-by,
uttered by him to his brother. They reached the door together. A
flight of stone steps led to it from the street. Unhappily, at this
moment the doctor repeated the expressions which had justly offended the
captain, who declared that he would not allow himself to be addressed in
so injurious a manner. As he spoke he pushed impatiently past his
brother, who at that moment stumbled down the steps. The doctor fell;
and as Captain Deane stooped to lift him up, to his horror, he found
that he was dead! Rumour, with her hundred tongues, forthwith spread
the report that the fire-eating captain had killed his brother. The
verdict however of the jury who sat to decide the case was, that Dr
Jasper Deane had died by the visitation of God. Still Captain Deane was
conscious of the angry feelings which had excited his bosom at the
moment, and he felt that the mark of Cain was upon his forehead. He
could no longer remain at home, and though those who loved him best knew
of his innocence, and did their utmost to console him, he determined to
leave the country. He accordingly wrote to Captain Bertrand, accepting
his offer of a naval command under the Czar of Russia; and in a short
time he and Elizabeth sailed for the Baltic. He rendered great
assistance in organisin