My beasts fetch good prices for the army, and save that there is a want of hands, I was never doing better.

Still I would gladly see peace established." Presently the fishermen, having finished their liquor, retired, and the captain, looking keenly at Harry, said, "Methinks, young sir, that you are not precisely what you seem!" "That is so," Harry replied; "I am on business here, It matters not on which side, and it may be that we may strike a bargain together." "Do you want to cross the channel ?" the captain asked, laughing.

"You seem young to have put your head in a noose already." "No," Harry said, "I do not want to cross myself; but I want to send some others across.

I suppose that if a passenger or two were placed on board your ship, to be landed in Holland, you would not deem it necessary to question them closely, or to ascertain whether they also were anxious to arrive at that destination ?" "By no means," the captain replied.

"Goods consigned to me will be delivered at the port to which they are addressed, and I should consider that with passengers as with goods, I must carry them to the port for which their passage is taken." "Good," Harry said; "if that is the case, methinks that when you sail--and," he asked, breaking off, "when do you sail ?" "To-morrow morning, if the wind is fair," the captain answered.