well-known face, though I don't think any one recognised
us. Let me go up the side first, and learn if it is all well with your
father, and if so tell him that you are safe. You know we must always
be ready to say `God's will be done,' and you must be prepared for
whatever He has ordered."

"Do as you think best, Tom," answered Harry. "I am sure that is right."

Tom climbed up the side. Directly after reaching the deck he stepped
back and beckoned to the boys. They quickly climbed up after him.
Harry caught sight of his father talking to Tom. In another instant he
was in Captain Graybrook's arms. Bass, also, was warmly welcomed. Mr
Champion shortly afterwards came aft, and the three castaways were soon
surrounded by the remainder of the officers and crew.

They had much to recount to each other. Harry, as clearly as he could,
told his father all that had happened to them.

"We have indeed mourned for you and your companions, Harry, as lost,"
said Captain Graybrook. "The ship was almost knocked to pieces, and
after striking on a reef and having our sails blown to ribbons, we
drove, with a fearful leak, hardly able to keep the ship afloat, many
hundred leagues to the southward. At last, mercifully preserved, we
were able to get safely into a harbour in one of the Samoan islands. As
soon as the ship was repaired we made sail to the northward to look for
you. On reaching the island off which your boat had last been seen, we
searched every part of the coast, and went up the only harbour in it,
where we hoped that you might have taken shelter, but finding no traces
of you, we at length gave you up for lost.

"I believe I should have died of grief, but my friend Champion afforded
me comfort from a source of which, till then, I was ignorant. He told
me of the love of Jesus, and that he felt sure that you had accepted the
offers of salvation, and if it had been God's will to take you to
Himself, that you were safe with Him in heaven, where you were free from
all the troubles and trials of life, and that I might look forward to
the certainty of meeting you there, with your dear mother and sister, if
I, too, would yield my stubborn heart to Him. My friend spoke
faithfully and firmly, and at length, by grace, through faith in the
blood of Jesus Christ, I became reconciled to that loving God, and
assured that He orders all things for the best.

"We have lately been very successful in fishing, and, having got a f