ed they also felt an equal want of rest from the same cause.
Each began to yawn. They laid themselves at their full length along the
grass, and in a short time I could hear by their snoring, as Jackson
used to do, that they were asleep.

I now crept stealthily towards them on my hands and knees, and they were
in such a profound sleep, that I had no difficulty whatever in removing
the pistols from their belts. I had just succeeded in this, when I
beheld the Captain, and John Gough, and Mr Evelyn, and all the rest of
them, well armed with guns and pistols, approaching the place where we
were.

In a few minutes afterwards the mutineers were made prisoners, without
their having an opportunity of making the slightest resistance. I was
much complimented by the Captain for the dexterity with which I had
disarmed them; but while I was in conversation with him, it is
impossible to express the surprise I felt, on seeing Mr Evelyn suddenly
rush towards me from the side of Mrs Reichardt, with whom he had been
talking, and embracing me with the most moving demonstrations of
affection, claim me as his grandson.

The mystery was soon explained. Mr Evelyn had met so many losses in
business as a merchant, that he took the opportunity of a son of his old
clerk--who had become a captain of a fine ship, employed in the South
American trade--being about to proceed on a trading voyage to that part
of the world, to sail in his vessel with a consignment of goods for the
South American market. He had also another object, which was to inquire
after the fate of his long-lost daughter and son-in-law, of whom he had
received no certain intelligence, since the latter took ship with the
diamonds he had purchased to return home. The vessel in which they
sailed had never been heard of since; and Mr Evelyn had long given up
all hopes of seeing either of them again, or the valuable property with
which they had been intrusted.

On their going to the house, he had asked Mrs Reichardt my name,
stating that I so strongly resembled a very dear friend of his he
believed had perished many years ago, that he felt quite an interest in
me. The answer he received led to a series of the most earnest
inquiries, and Mrs Reichardt satisfied him on every point, showed him
all the property that had formerly been in the possession of Mrs
Henniker and her husband; related Jackson's story, and convinced him,
that though he had lost the daughter for whom he had mo