e wants
the discretion of an older head, but the heart is kindness itself--I would
hazard life, to shelter his--but at every hazard the brigantine must be
saved.--Adieu!"

There was strong emotion in the voice of the mariner of the shawl,
notwithstanding his high bearing. Squeezing the hand of Ludlow, he passed
back into his own barge, with the ease and steadiness of one who made the
ocean his home.

"Adieu!" he repeated, signing to his men to pull in the direction of the
shoals, where it was certain the ship could not follow. "We may meet
again; until then, adieu."

"We are sure to meet, with the return of light."

"Believe it not, brave gentleman. Our lady will thrust the spars under her
girdle, and pass a fleet unseen.--A sailor's blessing on you--fair winds
and a plenty; a safe landfall, and a cheerful home! Deal kindly by the
boy, and, in all but evil wishes to my vessel, success light on your
ensign!"

The seamen of both boats dashed their oars into the water at the same
instant, and the two parties were quickly without the hearing of the
voice.

Chapter XXVII.

"--Did I tell this,
Who would believe me?"

Measure for Measure.

The time of the interview related in the close of the preceding chapter,
was in the early watches of the night. It now becomes our duty to
transport the reader to another, that had place several hours later, and
after day had dawned on the industrious burghers of Manhattan.

There stood, near one of the wooden wharves which lined the arm of the sea
on which the city is so happily placed, a dwelling around which there was
every sign that its owner was engaged in a retail commerce, that was
active and thriving, for that age and country. Notwithstanding the
earliness of the hour, the windows of this house were open; and an
individual, of a busy-looking face, thrust his head so often from one of
the casements, as to show that he already expected the appearance of a
second party in the affair that had probably called him from his bed, even
sooner than common. A tremendous rap at the door relieved his visible
uneasiness; and, hastening to open it, he received his visiter, with much
parade of ceremony, and many protestations of respect, in person.

"This is an honor, my lord, that does not often befall men of my humble
condition," said the master of the house, in the flippant utterance of a
vulgar cockney; "but I thought it would be more agreeable to