in with ours, that is certain. Courage, Philip, and let him remain."

"Perhaps you are right, Amine: I may retard, but cannot escape, whatever
may be my intended fate."

"Let him remain, then, and let him do his worst. Treat him with
kindness--who knows what we may gain from him?"

"True, true, Amine; he has been my enemy without cause. Who can tell?--
perhaps he may become my friend."

"And if not, you will have done your duty. Send for him now."

"No, not now--to-morrow; in the mean time, I will order him every
comfort."

"We are talking as if he were one of us, which I feel that he is not,"
replied Amine; "but still, mundane or not we cannot but offer mundane
kindness, and what this world, or rather what this ship, affords. I
long now to talk with him to see if I can produce any effect upon his
ice-like frame. Shall I make love to the ghoul?" And Amine burst into
a bitter laugh.

Here the conversation dropped, but its substance was not disregarded.
The next morning, the surgeon having reported that Schriften was
apparently quite recovered, he was summoned into the cabin. His frame
was wasted away to a skeleton, but his motions and his language were as
sharp and petulant as ever.

"I have sent for you, Schriften, to know if there is anything that I can
do to make you more comfortable. Is there anything that you want?"

"Want?" replied Schriften, eyeing first Philip and then Amine. "He! he
I think I want filling out a little."

"That you will, I trust, in good time; my steward has my orders to take
care of you."

"Poor man," said Amine, with a look of pity, "how much he must have
suffered! Is not this the man who brought you the letter from the
Company, Philip?"

"He! he! yes! Not very welcome, was it, lady?"

"No, my good fellow; it's never a welcome message to a wife, that sends
her husband away from her. But that was not your fault."

"If a husband will go to sea and leave a handsome wife when he has, as
they say, plenty of money to live upon on shore, he! he!"

"Yes, indeed, you may well say that," replied Amine.

"Better give it up. All folly, all madness--eh, captain?"

"I must finish this voyage, at all events," replied Philip to Amine,
"whatever I may do afterwards. I have suffered much, and so have you,
Schriften. You have been twice wrecked; now tell me, what do you wish
to do? Go home in the first ship, or go ashore at the Cape, or--"

"Or do anything, so I get out of t