But I have communed with myself and decided to overlook all personal offence.

It is enough that certain of our fellow-townsmen are in durance, and I go to release them.

In short, I travel to-day to Plymouth to seek the best legal advice for their defence.

In my absence I commit the good behaviour of Troy to your keeping, one and all." You, who have read how, when Nelson left Portsmouth for death and victory, the throng pressed after him down the beach in tears, and ran into the water for a last grasp of his hand, conceive with what emotion we lined up and escorted our hero to the ferry; through what tears we watched him from the Passage Slip as he waved back from the boat tiding him over to the farther shore, where at length Boutigo's Van--"The Eclipse," Troy to Torpoint, No Smoking Inside--received and bore him from our straining eyes..