eping.

Nat was glad to get away from the sad scene. On his way out he passed
Sam Shaw, but that youth had nothing to say, and he turned aside.

"I feel that I owe you an apology," said Captain Carter to Captain
Turton. "I'll discharge that rascal of a mate and his red-headed
nephew, too."

About two weeks later, through the efforts of Mr. Scanlon, the lawyer
who took charge of the case for Nat, the entire sum appropriated by
the mate, together with interest for two years, was recovered, and
turned over to the young pilot, who also received his father's
wallet, which he prized very much. Bumstead and Sam lost their places
on the _Liberty Bell_, and at last accounts they were working as
laborers aboard a grain barge, for the mate had to sell his shares in
the _Jessie Drew_ to pay Nat what was coming to the boy. Sam confessed
his trick about the cigarettes, and Captain Marshall, when he heard
about it, begged Nat's pardon in a letter.

"Well," said Mr. Weatherby to Nat one day, "since you have come into
your inheritance, I suppose you'll give up learning to be a pilot?"

"Indeed, I shall not. I'm going to spend a couple of terms at school,
and then I'm coming back with you again. I want to see my old friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Miller, and do something for them, in return for their
kindness to me. I'm going to be a pilot yet, and, I hope, a good one."

"There is no question but what you will, if you keep on as you have
been going," returned Mr. Weatherby.

Nat used part of the money to better his education, and he gave a
goodly sum to his kind friends, so that they were able to live in
better circumstances. Then the young pilot resumed his work aboard a
big passenger steamer, Mr. Weatherby coaching him, until the aged man
said Nat knew as much as he did, if not more.

To-day, one of the best pilots on the Great Lakes is Nat Morton, who
once was a wharf-rat about the Chicago water front. But he won his
place through pluck and after not a few perils.

THE END

THE WEBSTER SERIES

By FRANK V. WEBSTER

[Illustration: BOB THE CASTAWAY]

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