“And the sound of the water that was dashed down the sleeve of any that were caught in an oath.”

He laughed like a little child. “It is well that I was n’t a gentleman, and had not those trees to fell, or I should have been as wet as any merman� . And Pocahontas, the little maid� and how blue the sky was, and how glad we were what time the Patience and Deliverance came in!”

His voice failed, and for a minute I thought he was gone; but he had been a strong man, and life slipped not easily from him. When his eyes opened again he knew me not, but thought he was in some tavern, and struck with his hand upon the ground as upon a table, and called for the drawer.

Around him were only the stillness and the shadows of the night, but