Mr.Horton, whom I see there, knows me, and will tell you that I am a son of a doctor in Sidmouth.

But, as I have got into a scrape, I would rather serve than go back and stand a trial." "Very well, my lad," the captain said.

"I like your spirit, and will keep my eye on you." The three countrymen and four of the French sailors, who declined to join the Thetis, were taken back to the cutter, and the Thetis at once proceeded on her way down channel.

James had given a hastily scribbled line, on the back of an old letter which he happened to have in his pocket, to the men who were to be taken ashore, but he had very little hope that it would ever reach his mother.

Nor, indeed, did it ever do so.