o with me and show yourself."

"As ma'm'selle pleases," was the cool response, and we trudged back
toward the road.

[Illustration: SUZETTE.--DRAWN BY THEO. ROBINSON.]

I expected to find Suzette still sobbing, and Viola in hysterics; but
what were they doing? Suzette was posing, and Viola making a picture of
her--the cap and the sabots had been too tempting. Viola had given up
searching for the truant boy, and was trying to secure a correct sketch
of his sister. Suzette looked "all smiles" at seeing Jacques, and would
have embraced him, but Viola would not let her stir.

It is needless to say that we lost the train, that aunt mildly lectured
us, that Jacques and Suzette begged ten thousand pardons, and filled the
carriage with water-lilies. We had to stop at the cure's to return some
books he had lent us; and when we told him the story, he made us dine
with him, and I must confess that I ate some of Jacques's frog legs, and
that they were delicious.

[Begun in No. 31 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, June 1.]

THE MORAL PIRATES.

BY W. L. ALDEN.

CHAPTER XIV.

The boys had been on their island for more than a week when they
resolved to make an excursion to Schroon, which was the nearest village,
in order to get some sugar, coffee, and other necessaries. Schroon Lake,
or rather the lower end of it, was not more than five miles from Brandt
Lake; but there was a range of high hills between the two, and the
village of Schroon was situated at the head of the lake, which was
nearly ten miles in length. A long and tiresome journey was, therefore,
before them, and they ought to have started early in the morning; but
they did not start until nearly eleven o'clock. Harry, Tom, and Joe were
to go to Schroon together, and Jim was to stay at the island until six
o'clock, when he was to row over to the west shore and bring the others
back to the camp.

[Illustration: BIDDING JIM GOOD-BY--DRAWN BY A. B. FROST.]

When they bade good-by to Jim, the three other boys assured him that
they would certainly be back as early as six o'clock, and warned him not
to fail to meet them with the boat. They then started to cross the
hills, following a foot-path that was so little used that it was hardly
visible. Unfortunately the path led through a thicket of raspberry
bushes, and the fruit was so tempting that the boys lost a good deal of
time by stopping to gather it. After a tiresome tramp under the mid-day
sun they reached the lowe