CHAPTER X.
CONTAINS THE THIRD AND LAST PART OF MY FATHER'S JOURNAL: SETTING FORTH THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE _BELLE FORTUNE_.
"June 19th .-- Strange that wherever I am hospitably entertained I recompense my host by falling ill in his house.

Since my last entry in this Journal I have been lying at the gate of death, smitten down with a sore sickness.

It seems that the long exposure and weariness of my journey to the Peak threw me into a fever: but of this I should soon have recovered, were it not for my head, which I fear will never be wholly right again.

That cowardly blow upon Malabar Hill has made a sad wreck of me; twice, when I seemed in a fair way to recovery, has my mind entirely given way.

Mr.Eversleigh, indeed, assures me that my life has more than once been despaired of--and then what would have become of poor Margery?
I hope I am thankful to God for so mercifully sparing my poor life, the more so because conscious how unworthy I am to appear before Him.
"I trust I did not betray my secret in my wanderings.